Re: Long application startup time
Jens Benecke wrote: Hi, I wonder if any of you have the same problem (perhaps on comparable hardware: AMD K6-2 500, 192 MB RAM, SCSI hard disks, /home via NFS). When I run KDE, *every* *single* *applicaion* (be it xterm, konsole, konqueror, or whatever) needs at least 3-5 seconds MORE time to start up than with e.g. IceWM. I.e. I type Alt-F2 + xterm. CPU jumps to 100%. 3 seconds nothing happens. then xterm pops up and CPU goes down. I type alt F2 and e.g. gg:foobar. Sometimes 10 seconds elapse before a konqueror window pops up and shows me the results. Does anybody have a similar problem here? Pretty much but it's not that bad.It takes about 2-3 seconds for a small app to start and it jumps up to 35%-50% CPU when starting a KDE app(konsole,konqueror). .xterm starts-up instantly and jumps about 3%. My system is a K6-2/500 with 256MB RAM (no NFS).This is with samba,ominorb,netscape and 3 konsoles running .
Re: lisa and dist-upgrade
Thanks for the replys as I said,I did solve the problem at the time.:-) I was just pointing out the error as a curiosity. What got me was that dist-upgrade didn't remove it.Now I would've understand it from a apt-get upgrade ,but apt-get dist-upgrade should've done it IMHO. Ofcourse I could be mistaken.:-)
Re: kppp dials and no go
paul taylor wrote: I changed /etc/ppp/options to noauth. I dial in. The modems seem to connect, but then neither lynx or netscape can locate the start up page. This is very discouraging -- hi Welcome to the world of Linux and dial-up.:-) Try this as root route del default route add default gateway ppp0 I've seen this happening with some ISP's.No pattern though so I have a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d that does this. As I said,it's the same box and with some ISP's will set-up the default gateway to ppp0,for others it won't.
Re: At a loss with kppp
Victor wrote: After having used kde 2.01 on a redhat box for a year or so, I've installed the latest release of kde 2.1 stable for debian potato on my new PC and go on using kmail as my favourite mail reader. Unfortunately, kppp doesn't run correctly both as a user and as root. After dialing the phone number, it connects giving info about the connection but immediately stop declaring pppd died unexpectedly - exit status 1 (I had a look at man pppd but this is an extremely generic error) . Neither is /var/log/messages more helpful: it says : terminating on signal 15. I had a go at chmod u+s /usr/bin/kppp and at giving all the users the same dip group. No success. Could you please help me with it? Ciao Vittorio Try giving the noauth option either in kpp or in /etc/ppp/options
Re: anyone having problems with noatun?
Tim Kelley wrote: On Monday 19 March 2001 20:30, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: Hmm ... I just did an apt-get update/upgrade just in case (nothing) running 2.4.2 / P700 256MB here. It should kick butt! I'm getting my kde2 from one of the mirrors ... deb http://kde.rap.ucar.edu potato main crypto optional I don't know how far beind they are ... Hiya Tim, OK,so I tried an mpg : noatun file.mpg .noatun starts.takes up 30% of the CPU then drops down to 10.It won't play it though,just stays there .mp3's work fine though so...no clue. I'm running the latest unstable veersion of everything (latest dist-upgrade from sid as of yesterday from ftp.ca.debian.org).
Re: anyone having problems with noatun?
Tim Kelley wrote: I'm running the ltest KDE2.1 with potato. Lately (I can't remember after which update) whenever I try to play a file accosiated with kde media player (noatun) my cpu goes straight to 100% and nothing else happens. I've tried playing files from the terminal to see if anything useful ... I get this: noatun ./blah.mpg on my system,playing an mp3 works fine, 8% CPU time but I haven't updated since 2.1 went final,so it's not kde related I'd say.(I don't have any mpg on my system) I'll update tonight and see what gives.
Re: Fonts
Christophe Prud'homme wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 28 February 2001 23:16, Mircea Luca wrote: Hi Can somebody please point me to a man page,doc,wahtever to restore mack my old fonts and console settings.After the new upgrade they suck.The control center setting for fonts won't see my ttf's (xfontsel does) ,mc in a console is missing like half of the charcaters and the overall look is crap. I'm willing to read but I like to know what.Where was that setting for AA fonts anyway ?Couldn't find it anywhere. it is very simple: read the emails in this mailing list the issues you mention are discussed there. you might be the Nth person to ask with N 1 for example here is an email sent by ivan but you might want to read a few others On Wednesday 28 February 2001 20:18, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: Ok...so with input from folks and whatnot here are some tips. 1: Turn off AA support (it's enabled by default...grr, I'm fixing that) 2: If you want AA, be sure to install true type fonts... 3: Check out xfs-xtt 4: read back through the archive for more tips 5: Install xfonts-scalable . If you don't have any type1 fonts (true type) to begin with, it'll crash as AA is on by default...and if it can't find any fonts it won't be happy. This is most likely the cause of most of crash on startup faults. Ivan and try looking in the Control Center - LookNFeel-Style (AA support is enabled there) regards C. - -- Thanks,after I played a bit with the 3 fonts I have I managed to see the text to disable them.As for the rest I'll read the archive.:-)
Re: Debian-KDE FAQ...
Jaime Robles wrote: Hello all! The List FAQ is going to be started so... the first thing is to decide ALL the questions that the FAQ should try to answer... Maybe it could start with: 1.-Question: Is there a list for KDE Debian users? 2.-Q: How can I subscribe the debian-kde@lists.debian.org 3.-Q:Where are the Release schedules? 4.-Q: What's avail and what's not? 5.-Q: How do I install it...I can't find a package called kde? Those are only suggestions the main idea, i think shoud be that we all make the FAQ... so please, reports! -- Un saludo, Jaime Robles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coordinador KDE-ES http://www.kde.org/es Q:What are the packages installed by task-kde and what are the others I have to install one by one.?
Re: Debian-KDE FAQ...
Bruce Sass wrote: On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Mircea Luca wrote: Jaime Robles wrote: Those are only suggestions the main idea, i think shoud be that we all make the FAQ... so please, reports! Q:What are the packages installed by task-kde and what are the others I have to install one by one.? lemme take a crack at this one... A: For offline viewing do apt-get update, then use dselect, console-apt, aptitude, etc. Online, use http://www.debian.org/Packages to see what is available, then either download and do dpkg -i ... or use apt-get ... Ivan, Could you setup http://kde.tdyc.com/Packages ? later, Bruce I didn't ask myself,I know how to find them-I use apt-cache search ,but I can see it as a question and it would be nice to just have the answers instead of having one do the whole process of search and compare which takes some time(granted not much).Well IMHO that's what a FAQ is for.I'll post an answer later today when I get to it. Thanks anyway.
kicq problem
Hi I have a small problem with kicq.If kicq is running my system won't logout from kde.I have to shut down kicq first then logout.I have restore session enabled.What's weird it will startup by itself after I login as that user. Anybody else experiencing this or should I dig in my configuration,eventually a pointer would be nice. Thanks
imwheel
Hi I'm running unstable ,KDE2 ,gdm,kernel 2.4test12,X4 . My problem is simple.The wheel won't work in Netscape unless I open an xterm and start imwheel .The wheel works fine otherwise in other KDE apps altough if I do an ps aux | grep imwheel it will show only the grep which means AFAIK that imwheel doesn't work. I tried to make .xinitrc and exec imwheel -that didn't work . I know it's not related to kernel since it did the same thing with 2.2.18 and without devfs Any ideas welcome
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Hi For some reason for 2 days now I don't receive anything from the list.Can somebody please CC'me with a reply if the message made it to the list.I want to check my subscription. Thanks
Thanks
Thanks to everybody who replied.Suddenly after the first reply I started to get the mails from the list as well.Weird. Thanks again
Re: Installation from local files?
Denis NICOLAS wrote: Hi! I've downloaded the KDE2 packages for potato (from ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/2.0/distribution/deb/Debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/). But as I'm new to Debian, I don't quite know what to do with them now... I've messed around for a while with apt-get (a Packages file seems to be missing), dselect and dpkg, to no avail :-( Could anyone please help me? Cheers! -- dpkg -R /home/foo should install all deb packages in the directory foo. While I haven't tested it it should work according to dpkg --help Alternate would be to install package by package with dpkg -i foo.deb hunting for dependencies (ugh !) . For apt or dselect you need to create the packages.gz file in the directory. You can do that with dpkg-scanpackages . Also you can add the relevant line in /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato main crypto optional qt1apps do an apt-get update then to avoid redownloading all pacakges again just copy them from where they are to /var/cache/apt/archives apt will check the dependencies and download only what you don't have already. But you have to do the update first so apt knows what those packages are about. -- The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. Alan Saporta
Re: Konsole and pam-solved
Mircea Luca wrote: Hi Everytime I try to su from konsole I get a pam_authentication error.su from kterm or a vt works fine.Does anybody experience this or is just something Storm specific and what may it be ? Thanks -- Well ,the latest upgrade from yesterday solved this problem.Still don't know why though.:-( -- The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. Alan Saporta
Re: vote
Ivan E. Moore II wrote: ok... Potato users be heard (woody users are stuck with what I give you) :) option 1: upgrade potato .deb's to 2.1-beta1+ (ie..move from stable to cvs snapshots as I am doing with woody) option 2: create a seperate repository on kde.tdyc.com for kde 2.1 potato .deb's. option 3: wait for 2.1's release to do potato debs (note...when I start making 2.1 debs for potato I will no longer be able to make 2.0.1 debs) Due to my network snafu I ended up being a day behind in uploads for woody.. which actually ends up being a good thing. :) (at least IMO)...in the 24hrs to follow beta1 a bunch of bug fixes have been made including one very annoying one with email configuration. (plus 24hrs more of me cleaning things up) so..your choice. Ivan -- I vote for option 2 but 3 will do. -- The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. Alan Saporta
Konsole and pam
Hi Everytime I try to su from konsole I get a pam_authentication error.su from kterm or a vt works fine.Does anybody experience this or is just something Storm specific and what may it be ? Thanks -- The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. Alan Saporta
