Guys in short words, Jaunty is screwed please downgrade to intrepid or use another distro like Fedora 11 which is due release in a short time.
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:15 AM, Chris Drost <chris.dros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > How can you say that you cannot narrow down the possible culprits? > > Because the .tar.gz of the qt4.5 source is 100 MB in size. If we had a > crash report saying "there was a segmentation fault right here," we > could maybe figure out where in that beast of a source code it was -- > but just asking "what line in the KDE 4.2 source is calling the wrong > function in the Qt 4.5 source which is also misusing EXA when it > repaints the screen" is a question that can't be answered without much > more information than the problem itself provides. > > > So, waiting for an yet unstable alpha release is the solution? > > I'm not saying that you should jump on the Karmic alpha -- once people > have solid Karmic-4.3 integration, there will almost surely be a .deb > posted to the jaunty-backports repository. > > > How about proposing KDE 4.2 compiled against qt4.4 (shipped by > default) and package qt4.5 as an alternative with a BIG FAT WARNING? I > haven't seen anything preventing such a strategy on a release-update. > > You can get KDE 4.2 + Qt 4.4 + Kubuntu! However, you will have to use > Intrepid to do it. As jaunty-backports will probably eventually contain > KDE 4.3, so too the intrepid-backports repository contains, right now, > KDE 4.2. And Intrepid has not been retrofitted to use Qt 4.5 -- 4.5 is > strictly Jaunty and up. > > > According to this changelog this bug might have already been solved in > qt. > > I don't see anything in that changelog to suggest a fix for anything > EXA-specific, much less rendering artifacts. What line are you referring > to, specifically? (I'm not really a Kubuntu dev, so don't take my word > as gospel here. The Debian unstable repository (sid) contains a .deb for > Qt 4.5.1, and ScottK on IRC says that the current plan is to merge this > into Karmic, but keep it out of Jaunty. It might get backported later; I > don't know.) > > > Which KDE bug are you referring to? > > I was referring to this comment (comment #21) by Aaron J. Seigo: > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=187356#c21 > > > Are you referring to the KDE 4.3 fix? What if the bug is really in Qt > 4.5? > > I was referring to using UXA. (More specifically, since it looks like > nobody has placed these instructions explicitly here, adding the line [ > Option "AccelMethod" "UXA"] to the "Device" section in > /etc/X11/xorg.conf .) So far UXA has been working for me, but the > problem was much less prevalent for me than it apparently is for you. > > >using a "better" version of Qt within Jaunty (perhaps using an optional > repository?) > > Jaunty has already shipped with Qt 4.5, and my amateurish attempts to > simulate a downgrade to Qt 4.4 with aptitude and the Intrepid > repositories have not looked promising. I don't think anyone can provide > you with a PPA (an optional repository) that would solve the multitude > of dependencies. Everything (?) in Kubuntu Jaunty was built with the > idea, "okay, we're releasing a Qt 4.5 operating system this April." Much > of it breaks when you try to pull the tablecloth out from under it. > > If you want KDE 4.2 + Kubuntu, and you cannot enable UXA for some reason > or another (or if UXA doesn't solve the problem), then it looks like > your only option is Intrepid at the moment. Karmic may offer a backport > of KDE 4.3 in a couple weeks if you're willing to wait. > > -- > (Needs UXA) painting artifacts after qt4.5 upgrade on intel chipset > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/338669 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- Regards Jithin Emmanuel http://spotm.in Emo Philips <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/emo_philips.html> - "I got some new underwear the other day. Well, new to me." -- (Needs UXA) painting artifacts after qt4.5 upgrade on intel chipset https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/338669 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to qt4-x11 in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
