On Sunday 02 August 2009 07:54:17 am jedd wrote: > Howdi, > > Okay, first up, 2.4.2 is much much better than 2.4.2, and part > of that for me was shifting back to an nVidia grunty desktop, > from an intel-chipset laptop. > > The following are all suffixed with a '... anyone else seeing > this, and/or have any ideas on how to resolve?'. > > > Sometime in the last several days, an update to unstable (looks > like only some xserver bits and libraries I don't recognise) > causes my desktop to lockup briefly, plasma/kwin crash, usually > on flip-box task-switching (alt-tab). > > > File-open dialogs now don't respect the single-click to navigate > thru directories, select files, etc. This seemed to happen a > few weeks back I think. > > > Amarok 2 hit me, though this is possibly my own fault. It > crashes consistently(!) every time I let it run for a few > minutes, and it looks like it's about 3-5% of the way through > indexing my audio collection. I fear this means it's a one-way > street from the last version, short of snotting the amarok db and > pushing back to testing versions of amarok. Audio collection is > 93GB (1200 dirs, 17000 files, on a dm-crypted local fs). > > It also seems desperately eager to use gstreamer, which is > installed on this box, but doesn't produce any actual noise (from > the few minutes at a time that I can experiment with it). > > > That'll do for now -- as usual, many thanks to anyone who can > at least empathise or even better, offer some answers. ;) > > Jedd.
With respect to sound problems on my Slackware system I had to first deal with the alsamixer settings from the command line and then free up some permissions in /dev. Whether this helps or not on your dissimilar system I have no idea. I use KDE 3.5 or when on a KDE 4 system I revert to the classic 3.5 layout. The KDE 4 layout verges on the silly IMO. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus/e-book $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org