From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 13 12:05:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA15977 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 12:05:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fledge.watson.org (COPLAND.CODA.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.222.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA15969 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 12:05:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA07007; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 15:05:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 15:05:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org Reply-To: Robert Watson To: "Don O'Neil" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, kde-user-request@lists.netcentral.net Subject: Re: KDE Crashing In-Reply-To: <000401bddea9$a8e8a4a0$0200010a@digerati.whtech.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG KDE 1.0 seems to run very nicely for me on 3.0-CURRENT of FreeBSD. However, I had real problems the moment I turned on Win95 widgets. :) While I assume this is not intentional, the Win95 widget emulation is extremely realistic; apparently in some odd combination with the XiG AccelX product and 3.0-CURRENT of FreeBSD, hangs are frequent. The moment I switched back to Motif widget style, all was well. So if you are using the Win95 widget style, try turning it off. I also found that upgrading my AccelX version helped a lot -- if you are using XiG's product, go to their web page to make sure you have the current version. I have modified the CC list to go to -questions instead of -hackers, as that is probably more appropriate On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Don O'Neil wrote: > First off I'd like to thank all those who helped me w/ my KDE problems... it > did indeed turn out to be a path issue and fully resolving the path in the > .Xsession file cleared it right up. > > However, I'm experiencing quite a few crashes and hangs while running KDE... > I've narrowed it down to being KDE (or something with it) itself, as when I > run QVWM and all sorts of apps I don't have this problem. > > I get core dumps when running the file browser, mail program, and other > programs, and occasionally all the windows just dissapear. Sometimes the > whole window manager just freezes.... > > Are there known compatibility problems/bugs in the 1.0 release of KDE? > > My hardware is as follows: > > Cyrix M2-200 CPU > Shuttle Hot 557 MB w/ 512 K Cache > 64 MB EDO RAM > NCR 810 SCSI card w/ 3 2 GB HDD's > Toshiba CDROM, > Microsoft Intelimouse > S3 Virge DX 4 MB PCI video > SB 16 > USR 33.6 Modem > > Pretty generic setup. Like I said, everything works great except when I run > KDE. > > Don > > >> However, as soon as I change the window manager in the Xsession file > > >> to be KDE (startkde, kwm, ANYTHING with KDE) XDM doesn't launch it, > > >> rather it goes back to the login screen. There isn't anything I can > > >> do to get it out of this nasty loop, exept to log in, comment out > > >> the ttys entry and reboot. > > > Look at ~/.xsession-errors to see why KDE isn't launching. I would > > > suspect that /usr/local/bin is not in xdm's path. > > > > And the workaround (sorry I forgot to mention this) is to explicitly > > specify the the path to kwm (ie, /usr/local/bin/kwm) in the script > > you're using. > > > > Please send followups to -questions, where this thread should have > > started. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > Robert N Watson Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message