On Friday 19 December 2008 11:12:21 michael schuster wrote: > michael schuster wrote: > I downloaded the packages from solaris.bionimutton.org, installed > everything on my Lenovo T60p (with ATI graphics :-() following the > instructions (as far as I was able ;-), here's the status:
Michael, I hope you're having a wonderful Christmas somewhere in Germany. Bear in mind that the binary packages on bionicmutton really are whatever I happen to push there at some time; they don't necessarily update. I'm pretty sure that since my last set of crash fixes I haven't updated them. > 1) I can now log in and use KDE - I'm in KDE as I write this. SUCCESS! Yay! > 3) most changes to settings causes the settings manager(?) to crash - this > is esp. unfortunate when it leaves the screen dark on dark or white on > white :-( This is systemsettings? Or do you mean dragging things around on the Plasma desktop? That crashed a lot on my Thinkpad as well, I never did sit down to figure it out and find that locking the widgets (via the cashew in the upper right, the RMB menu on the desktop or ^L) helps stability considerably. > 4) something consumes a lot of CPU - I suspect this had to do with my > graphics adapter, but cannot prove it. Yes, this is really screwy on ATI X1300s (and similar - I have a system with an on-board X1200 and it just crawls when compared to my Eee; I need to borrow a X3870 to see if it's ATI's fault or just these old crufty chips). > 5) screen lock still fails when I try to unlock, but xlock provides an > adequate WA for me. Joep and I were looking into that particular one. I got it to unlock about 1 in 8 tries; the password verification is done correctly, but the results do not get back to the screen saver. > 6) libsunmath.so.1 is still missing from the installation (although I may > have messed that up, who knows? :-) That's because the binary packages are too old. Since then I've produced a FOSSspro-libraries package, but it's not on there. I encourage you to build stuff yourself (but, um .. you have a history there :) ) > biggest gripe, and, sadly, showstopper for me (unless someone can provide > me with a W/A): > > font sizes are TOO BIG. > > The initial settings (10 pt. for most) gives me fonts where I get about 10 pt is 1/7 of an inch. KDE is unusual in that it actually uses the DPI reported by X to calculate point sizes; that's 3mm per line, times 30 .. hm, a 9cm screen height *does* seem a little small. Fits my Eee, not my T60. > 30(!) lines on the screen. When I set them down to 8 (here the settings > manager works nicely, no crash ;-), kde-aware apps seem to take those > changes ... but thunderbird doesn't, and I yet have to find a setting in TB > to set the font size for its' own menus and tree view, etc - basically, the > non-mail content panels: these are still way too large, and where I > normally see ca 30 email subjects, I now see about 10 - this is in effect a > loss of screen real estate that I find hard to stomach. I'm really not sure how to apply font settings to other applications outside the KDE domain. That said, the fonts on my nv104 box are butt-ugly on the X1200; my nv101 machine with a nv8500 is much nicer, but .. there's a different font engine involved between the two, and I might have done tweaking on the nv101 box. I don't remember. This kind of thing is part of our "runtime testing" stage in KDE deployment, when we need to start thinking about not the code, but the default configuration on Solaris. [ade]
