From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 30 6:20:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92C3737B401 for ; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 06:20:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from t-indiv5-88.athome.tue.nl (t-indiv5-88.athome.tue.nl [131.155.241.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3FB6943EC2 for ; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 06:20:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from avleeuwen@piwebs.com) Received: (qmail 53657 invoked by uid 85); 30 Nov 2002 14:20:56 -0000 Received: from avleeuwen@piwebs.com by thuis.piwebs.com by uid 82 with qmail-scanner-1.15 (uvscan: v4.1.60/v4210. spamassassin: 2.x. Clear:SA:0(-4.4/5.0):. Processed in 3.432986 secs); 30 Nov 2002 14:20:56 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.4 required=5.0 Received: from unknown (HELO amd760.piwebs.com) (192.168.0.109) by 0 with SMTP; 30 Nov 2002 14:20:53 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Arjan van Leeuwen To: Cliff Sarginson , FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: X11, KDE, WM, Gnome and current Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 15:20:41 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <20021130114525.GC14379@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <20021130114525.GC14379@raggedclown.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200211301520.41327.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have no problems at all running KDE on DP2.=20 Did you load a sound driver? The complaints about /dev/dsp not existing s= eem=20 to indicate that you didn't load a sound driver. You might want to check your XF86Config file again, because I'm sure you = can=20 find an explanation for the default resolution thing there. Good luck, Arjan On Saturday 30 November 2002 12:45, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > I rebuilt the whole of KDE on DP2 (upto date as of a couple of days > ago). Apart from me growing older in the process nothing worked well, > despite using the same configuration as on 4.7. > - It starts but no sound arises > - The mouse moves, responds to clicks sometimes, but when I bring up th= e > menu and move the mouse it brings up the box asking what command you > want to run. > - Lots of errors reported about bad file descriptors. > - Gives a default resolution that is not the one I set. > - I.e unusable. > > Windowmaker does not work, either...sort of similarly. Also says > /dev/dsp does not exist. > > Gnome ... well it bitched about the window manager, but otherwise showe= d > similar symptoms to KDE. > > I think the problem must lie in X itself. > > Well it exercised DP2 pretty well in building it. > But it did not produce a usable GUI in all 3 cases. > > System is 512MB, PIII 1Ghz, Matrox G450 AGP, Soundblaster Live! Value. > Plus Logitech Cordless USB Optical Mouse. > > Am I being premature, there does not seem to be a KDE Package for 5.0. > When I tried to fetch it all I got was one file, that new groovy theme > that KDE comes with. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message