On 12/03/2012 03:14 AM, Baho Utot wrote:
> I have just completed KDE 4.9.1 and it generally works well.
> I am using Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2012-09-25, which I will
> update to the latest after I complete this desktop build. The
> configuration went well and have the sound working. I have not built
> the KDE Additional Packages
>
> There is the following few problems to work out...
>
> DVD drive doesn't show up in /dev, this may be due to the kernel as I am
> using the default kernel as I used make defconfig to configure it when I
> build LFS 7.2. I don't know if the kernel configuration is correct, I
> will make a custom kernel for this machine after I get the rest of KDE
> built. So I will visit this later.
>
> USB drives also don't show up in the device notifier although usb drives
> do show up in /dev and I can mount them using root. This I would like
> to get working but it is not real high on the list of things to get working.
>
> The NetworkManager in this version of the book causes the following
> problem when configuring/building Kde-workspace 4.9.1...
>
> -- Sorry, networkmanager-0.7 will not be built since your NetworkManager
> version (0.9.6.0) is not currently supported
> -- Will build networkmanager_fake-0.9
>
> Anyone know what version of NetworkManager works?
> I tried to dig through the cmake files but I have not found where the
> version of NetworkManager is tested for. I did a grep on the source but
> it returned too much hay in which to find the needle. So I did a Google
> and it returned
>
> set(HAVE_NETWORKMANAGER FALSE)
> if(NETWORKMANAGER_FOUND)
> if(${NETWORKMANAGER_VERSION} VERSION_GREATER "0.6.9999" AND
> ${NETWORKMANAGER_VERSION} VERSION_LESS "0.8.1001")
> message(STATUS "Will build networkmanager-0.7")
> set(HAVE_NETWORKMANAGER TRUE)
> add_subdirectory(networkmanager-0.7)
> else()
> message(STATUS "Sorry, networkmanager-0.7 will not be built since
> your NetworkManager version (${NETWORKMANAGER_VERSION}) is not currently
> supported")
> if (${NETWORKMANAGER_VERSION} VERSION_GREATER "0.8.999")
> message(STATUS "Will build networkmanager_fake-0.9")
> set(HAVE_NETWORKMANAGER TRUE)
> add_subdirectory(networkmanager_fake-0.9)
> endif ()
> endif()
> endif (NETWORKMANAGER_FOUND)
> macro_log_feature(HAVE_NETWORKMANAGER "NetworkManager" "A daemon for
> user controlled networking"
> "http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager"; FALSE "0.7.0" "Needed for
> building Network Management support in Solid. Max version supported is
> 0.8.10"
> So it looks like version > 6.9 and < 8.10 is needed not what is in the book.
>
There is seperate applet for that. I wouldn't recommend downgrading
networkmanager.
> KDM crashes and this is my concern. Currently I am starting KDE from a
> user login followed the book on setting up .xinitrc
> and then doing a startx, which works well. Trying to start KDM from
> root login on tty1 it tries to start as the screen flashes like xorg is
> starting but then something goes south. I don't have strace built just
> yet so I could not attempt that.
>
> Before I get down and dirty looking into KDM crashing does any one have
> any pointers or easy things to check?
>
> Thanks
>
Do you have PAM installed?
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