Re: Need help fixing KDE
What happens with: apt-get -t unstable install kdelib3 (and so on) John Batistic Even that fails with similar messages. Basically, the problem was that kdelibs3_4%2.2.1 managed to install itself but kde will not install because it's looking for packages that are not even in unstable yet. After much fighting and swearing, I eventually partially fixed the problem using dpkg --force-downgrade --force-overwrite -i kdelibs3_4%2.1.1* and several other packages that had been upgrade to 2.2.1 I had to list several packages on the one command due to the same packages provided by different packages in the different versions. I can finally log into KDE again, but kmail and konqueror both fail to start due to something about not finding Polish_7KDialog even though I only use English? I tried to re-install and reconfigure these packages, but I still have this problem, so I'm still stuck with Mozilla for mail at the moment. Of course these are the types of problem to be expecting from unstable. I probably just picked a bad time to try upgrading jsut when Ivan had updated several things but the all haven't reached the mirrors yet. I think for the moment, I'll stay with testing, once I can get this polish problem worked out. Thanks for all the ideas and help! I can't imaging getting this type of assistance from Redmond! Cheers, John Gay
can't compile any kdevelop source projects...
Hi, i downloaded several tar.gz's from the web to compile them local (because there are no .deb packages out there). e.g. Guarddog The problem is, that all programs come with old /admin directories. In those directories the check for automake greater 1.4 is made, and fails if found such a version. Fact is: testing uses automake 1.5.x kde-apps needs automake 1.4 Isn't it possible to update kapptemplate.deb to a version that supports automake 1.4 ? Or to provide a second package (e.g. kapptemplate.automake1.5.deb) ?? A probably working /admin directory is in the KDE-CVS tree sincerly Andy
QTDIR
Please excuse a naive quetsion... I want to compile Muse ( http://muse.seh.de ) and in its make.inc it has a setting for QTDIR but best I can determine the original QT packages are splt up on Debian so how do I define a single QTDIR env variable for compiling KDE/QT apps under Debian ? Or, is there other some strategy for doing such things, like downlioad the original QT tarballs and put them in /usr/local/qt so dependencies can be easily satisfied ? And, is QT3 anywhere near complete enough for a novice to play with ? Muse 0.4.15 will build under QT3 apparently. --markc
Re: QTDIR
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 07:35:06PM +1000, Mark Constable wrote: Please excuse a naive quetsion... I want to compile Muse ( http://muse.seh.de ) and in its make.inc it has a setting for QTDIR but best I can determine the original QT packages are splt up on Debian so how do I define a single QTDIR env variable for compiling KDE/QT apps under Debian ? Or, is there other some strategy for doing such things, like downlioad the original QT tarballs and put them in /usr/local/qt so dependencies can be easily satisfied ? And, is QT3 anywhere near complete enough for a novice to play with ? Muse 0.4.15 will build under QT3 apparently. QTDIR can be set to /usr/share/qt on Debian if needed. As for QT3 it's no longer beta. Ivan -- Ivan E. Moore II [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://snowcrash.tdyc.com GPG KeyID=90BCE0DD GPG Fingerprint=F2FC 69FD 0DA0 4FB8 225E 27B6 7645 8141 90BC E0DD
Re: KDE: mouse problems
Roland Wegmann wrote: Hello, I have a curious mouse problem! When I start debian, the system recognizes my mouse (MS Wheel Mouse Optical USB) first. After kdm is launched, sometimes my mouse is inactive sometimes it works. In the former case I have to reboot the system (sometimes several times), but then the mouse works under KDE 2.1.1, too. Under X-Window the mouse was active in any case. Could you give me some help, please? Does your system behavior match that reported in bug 113022? http://bugs.debian.org/113022 Also, does anyone notice similar behavior to 113022 using a non-fbdev X driver? I've noticed it on PowerPC and ARM both using the fbdev driver (offb on PPC, cyber2000fb on ARM), so with fbdev as the common thing, that's what I suspect is at fault... Zeen, -- -Adam P. GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Welcome to the best software in the world today cafe! http://lyre.mit.edu/%7Epowell/The_Best_Stuff_In_The_World_Today_Cafe.ogg
Re: KDE: mouse problems
On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 15:09, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Roland Wegmann wrote: I have a curious mouse problem! When I start debian, the system recognizes my mouse (MS Wheel Mouse Optical USB) first. After kdm is launched, sometimes my mouse is inactive sometimes it works. In the former case I have to reboot the system (sometimes several times), but then the mouse works under KDE 2.1.1, too. Under X-Window the mouse was active in any case. Could you give me some help, please? Does your system behavior match that reported in bug 113022? http://bugs.debian.org/113022 Also, does anyone notice similar behavior to 113022 using a non-fbdev X driver? I've noticed it on PowerPC and ARM both using the fbdev driver (offb on PPC, cyber2000fb on ARM), so with fbdev as the common thing, that's what I suspect is at fault... Maybe, you could try enabling debug output in the fbdev driver and/or the fbdevhw module. Some display managers have an option to always restart the X server on session exit, that might serve as a workaround. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
Printable fonts in koffice?
Hello, I am at the beginning of a trial to move my major office-work from MS to KDE. In this (somewhat stony) path I encountered the following problem: Not all of the fonts which are accessible from within kword or kresenter are good for printing, there are some fonts which cause gs /preview) and also the printers to stop processing the ps-file. One of these fonts is crillee if you want to test it out. How do I get around this? Will this be resolved when kde is linked against qt3? I use the recent packages from sid but yet did not edit any of the font-related config-files. I also use AA but it seems to work fine without any editing. Olaf
Re: Kwork/Koffice
El Mar 30 Oct 2001 11:41, Jens Benecke escribió: On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 08:57:12PM +0100, Jens Benecke wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 02:36:01PM -0500, Bob Koss wrote: Would TeX (LaTeX) be a suitable replacement for PowerPoint? Depends. OK, I correct myself. I've just seen prosper (see other post in this thread) and I'm amazed. I actually didn't expect this to be possible with LaTeX (although, I didn't think anything would be _IM_possible with LaTeX either... whatever ;). I agree too. I constantly work with LaTeX and I was completely surprised to see the screenshots. I am going to try prosper. Pablo de Vicente KDE Spanish translation team.
Re: Need help fixing KDE
El Mar 30 Oct 2001 00:02, John Gay escribió: After the serious problems of last nights attempts to install KDE2.2 I've now found myself stuck with a broken KDE and no apperent way to fix it? Everything I try insists on removing ALL of KDE! I can't install KDE from unstable due to missing packages, but I can't fix my previous set-up either. apt-get install kde/unstable produces: progeny:/home/jgay# apt-get install kde/unstable Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Selected version 4:2.2.8 (Debian:unstable) for kde You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: kde: Depends: kdelibs3 (= 4:2.2.1-12) but 4:2.1.2-3 is to be installed Depends: libkmid (= 4:2.2.1-12) or libkmid-alsa (= 4:2.2.1-12) but it is not going to be installed Depends: kdebase-audiolibs (= 4:2.2.1.0-4) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libkdenetwork1 (= 4:2.2.1-1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: kate (= 4:2.2.1.0-4) but it is not going to be installed Depends: konsole (= 4:2.2.1.0-4) but it is not going to be installed Depends: kscreensaver (= 4:2.2.1.0-4) but it is not going to be installed Depends: kruler but it is not going to be installed Depends: kdict but it is not going to be installed Depends: artsbuilder but it is not going to be installed Depends: noatun but it is not going to be installed Depends: knewsticker but it is not going to be installed Depends: ktimer but it is not going to be installed Depends: kcoloredit but it is not going to be installed kdebase: Depends: kdelibs3 (= 4:2.2.1-11) but 4:2.1.2-3 is to be installed kdebase-libs: Depends: kdelibs3 (= 4:2.2.1-11) but 4:2.1.2-3 is to be installed konqueror: Depends: kdelibs3 (= 4:2.2.1-11) but 4:2.1.2-3 is to be installed libkonq3: Depends: kdelibs3 (= 4:2.2.1-11) but 4:2.1.2-3 is to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). progeny:/home/jgay# As you can see, there are several packages that just won't be installed, and this stops me from installing KDE from unstable at all. I've tried both dselect and apt to try to get back to my original set-up, but the first thing that needs to be removed is kdelibs3 4:2.2.1 and this forces the removal of ALL my current KDE! I don't want to loose everything! But I do want to get KDE back. Gnome is just too awkward for me to use. Does anyone know how I can reverse this without loosing everything? I've even had to resort to using Mozilla for my mail because kmail is broke too. Here comes another advise from the many you have received. I would remove all KDE and reinstall again and I would remove it orderly. I think that measure is not a drastric one, altough it seems it is, because: - You will keep your ~/.kde which contains all your personal settings. - You do not need to download all packages again provided you do not apt-get update since the last time you did and you did not apt-get clean, because they are already in /var/cache/apt/archives. I think I found your same problem in one machine when moving from potato to woody + KDE 2.2.1 some time ago, and the way I sorted it out was to remove all KDE and reinstall from unstable (directly to KDE 2.2.1 not upgrade from KDE 2.1.1). Hope that helps, Pablo de Vicente KDE spanish translation team
Re: Creating new kernel with initrd?, Custom kernel: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 21:05
Has anybody else who has experience this problem found a solution? Please append a correct root= boot option kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:03 -tim. -- Original Message -- From: Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:10:13 +0100 #include hallo.h Timothy Webster wrote on Mon Oct 29, 2001 um 04:52:54PM: Upgrading to 2.4.12-k6 with initrd works fine. Using kernellab I create a new kernel 2.4.12-ac6 kernellab is a debian package that can be used to create a kernel from a linux kernel source + an alancox patch. Here I am using the linux kernel source 2.4.12 patched with alan's ac6 patch. What is kernellab? Whatever, if you take official Linus' sources, don't use them. They don't support for many filesystems on initrd, including cramfs needed by our mkinitrd. Use the kernel-source-2.4.13 package from Sid. == Ramdisk: Couldn't find vaild RAM disk image starting at 0. The line preceding this is important. But it looks like initrd-vs.-cramfs fuckage. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Wenn er die Reise bloß gut übersteht - sonst heißt es nachher noch, dass wir alle 2000 Jahre einen von ihnen umbringen. - Amnon Abramowitsch, israelischer Journalist, zur Reise des Papstes ins heilige Land (zitiert nach: Die Zeit Nr. 13/2000) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flash Konqueror -- Coexistence in Question
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001 09:53:25 -0500, Stephen == Stephen Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Try going to Control Center, File Browsing, File Stephen Associations. Expand application. Pick x-shockwave-flash. Pick Stephen the Embedding tab. Mine was set to Use settings for Stephen 'application' group. I changed that to Show files in embedded Stephen viewer. ... Stephen Let me know if this works for you! This worked for me at home. However, Flash is still broken on my work PC. The plugin is definitely starting (I can right-click on the embedding Flash movie, and get a menu including About Flash Player 4...), but seems to be having problems loading content. The difference is that here at work I'm behind a firewall/HTTP-proxy. Could it be that konq isn't passing on my proxy settings to the plugin? -- cheers, Mike
Re: Yet another anti-aliased KDE screenshot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 30 October 2001 05:48, Daniel Robert Franklin wrote: So, in short, if you actually want to see the font, as opposed to a bunch of artifacts, you need to use anti-aliasing. Don't mistake smoothness for blurring. That was some nice explanation. Anti-aliasing is something you ought to integrate in any display system, or you will have jagged edges. Thus, some of the hype associated with Mac OS X's Carbon. I'd always thought anti-aliasing was simply resampling, tho'. Which means there is actually some blending but not blurring, most algorithms are careful enough not to degrade image quality. On the other hand, the end result varies since there are different algorithms. I find the KDE AA satisfactory on XFree86, tho. The fonts look good on a hi-res display. I think that was one advantage Windoze had, only until recently :) If you're viewing that screenshot with konqueror you will see a fairly accurate representation of what I'm using but if you use an image viewer that resamples that further for you, it will indeed look blurry. My feeling is that especially web pages look a lot more like they were intended to. So, could you tell me about your font settings? Thanks, - -- Eray Ozkural (exa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo GPG public key fingerprint: 360C 852F 88B0 A745 F31B EA0F 7C07 AE16 874D 539C -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7305UfAeuFodNU5wRAqD7AJ9xywomgvSmb1qi3IGyuFY6748ImgCffRca bR8zwWcVmFx4V5tjLgT6o40= =E+Ea -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Yet another anti-aliased KDE screenshot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 30 October 2001 01:36, Dan Born wrote: That's rather impressive. I have a bunch of true type fonts, and anti-aliasing turned on in kde, but the only font available for a fixed width font under the control center is the fixed font, and fixed is the only thing available in konsole. This is ugly looking... how do I fix it? Yes, I like the fonts as well :) I got mad trying out all different fonts, because at first there weren't many fonts available and I had to go back to bitmapped fonts. You ought to start installing alternative fonts then. Summon apt. $ apt-cache search true.*type The following packages seem worthwhile: fttools - FreeType font utilities. x-ttcidfont-conf - Configure TrueType and CID fonts for X. msttcorefonts - Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts ttf-commercial - Install or share some commercial truetype fonts with windows. And of course anti-aliasing-howto - Anti Aliasing metapackage The qt-fonts-HOWTO.html pretty much covers which fonts you can use. Also, I'm not sure why you can't use any bitmapped fonts when you start using AA. Rather weird. Lucida Console looks good with konsole but is it really better than fixed (misc). Thanks, - -- Eray Ozkural (exa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo GPG public key fingerprint: 360C 852F 88B0 A745 F31B EA0F 7C07 AE16 874D 539C -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE731BofAeuFodNU5wRAuO9AKCm+TC/1UTZ5kRRC/LLm/CZhe9b7gCfVt4p hP4XQXURn6l78TeOE2rCYAY= =N6mx -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Yet another anti-aliased KDE screenshot
[ PGP not available, raw data follows ] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 30 October 2001 05:48, Daniel Robert Franklin wrote: So, in short, if you actually want to see the font, as opposed to a bunch of artifacts, you need to use anti-aliasing. Don't mistake smoothness for blurring. That was some nice explanation. Anti-aliasing is something you ought to integrate in any display system, or you will have jagged edges. Thus, some of the hype associated with Mac OS X's Carbon. Definitely. OSX takes it one step further though, although I don't think it takes it far enough. My personal preference would be the total elimination of the pixel as a concept for user-interface design, rather to have everything in terms of vectors, geometric lines etc, then use a simple rendering engine to sample that and turn it into pixels. Then you would be able to do arbitrary scaling, translation and rotation with the aid of hardware acceleration (much like the user-interface on the excellent QuArK Quake map editor). You could use scalable dimensionally-normalised eps files or some such thing for icons, buttons etc. I don't know if the WIMP paradigm would still work in that environment, but it certainly would be interesting to find out, or to develop something better :) I'd always thought anti-aliasing was simply resampling, tho'. Well, AA comes into that too - if you have an image with 600 dpi resolution and you want to display it on a monitor with 100 dpi resolution you need to downsample it. But this is not as simple as taking every 6th pixel (though that is the way it is sometimes done). You need to low-pass filter it first, or you will see artifacts. The effect is similar to sampling an analog signal. Accurately changing the sample rate to something which is not 1/N (N being an integer) (e.g. from 600 to 83 dpi) requires upsampling and then downsampling - but you still need to filter. Which means there is actually some blending but not blurring, most algorithms are careful enough not to degrade image quality. On the other hand, the end result varies since there are different algorithms. Yes. The precise digital filter used can be of many different designs, but all are imperfect (a digital filter would need to be infinitely long for it to be perfect). You will always get some aliasing but it should be much less than with no filter (hopefully below the threshold of perception). Forgive me for rabbiting on, as a DSP-obsessed electrical engineer, it's a subject which is close to my heart :) - Daniel -- ** * Daniel Franklin - Postgraduate student in Electrical Engineering * University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia * [EMAIL PROTECTED] **
korinoco and kreatecd in debian sid
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, two new Kde apps made it today in Debian unstable korinoco -- an very nice interface for wireless cards kreatecd -- a very nice and featureful CD burner After installation they will appear automagically in the Application(s) menu best regards C. - -- | Christophe Prud'homme, http://augustine.mit.edu/~prudhomm | ICQ UIN: 24560867 Alias: Jesunix | Linux User No: 231917 | | Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. | It settles everything. | Some think it is the voice of God. | -- Mark Twain -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE731sdoY+0C9S+FFARAo8zAJwK7Z2f8kHKJOXA60Ml4j9wxsaAjACfe6y0 XkX1qH1fXQT2X1uKpWaGnoI= =1mw0 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
question about konq
heya everyone I love konqueror and all, and I think its the best thing besides sliced bread, and elvis, however I have this one *slight* problem why is it everytime I pop open a new Konq window, I swear my system is loading all the konq binaries, and libs all over again. that gets really really irratating after a while. (shouldn't konq just open a new window on the fly, if it already is in memory???) or am I the only one wiht this weird problem?? thanks much for any info Sunny Dubey PS: I'm running the lastest version of everything of SID on my crappy-laptop
Re: Schmoozing for Ivan: Final
Well...there was interest in what I spent the money and all on. The original intet was that the REI gift cert was going to be for me to spend on me and the rest was for me to spend on my wife and I...however my wife reversed that. :) She wanted a nice winter jacket and so we went out and spent almost the whole gift cert on a nice winter jacket. The rest I get to spend on me...so I am purchasing (actually tomorrow) a mountain bike and accessories. Something to get me out of the house and something that's good for me. Again to all of you who pitched in either financially or by other means, (volunteering, packaging, etc...) Thanks! Ivan -- Ivan E. Moore II [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://snowcrash.tdyc.com GPG KeyID=90BCE0DD GPG Fingerprint=F2FC 69FD 0DA0 4FB8 225E 27B6 7645 8141 90BC E0DD
