From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 25 0:42:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.5.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC87637B409 for ; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 00:42:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trini0@optonline.net) Received: from optonline.net (ool-18be012f.dyn.optonline.net [24.190.1.47]) by mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.0 Patch 2 (built Dec 14 2000)) with ESMTP id <0GIM00H775FFLZ@mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 03:42:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 03:42:43 -0400 From: Gerard Samuel Subject: Re: OT:Kde2.2 To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: FreeBSD Questions Message-id: <3B8756F3.7020702@optonline.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010809 References: <20010823173956.C26998@ns2.wananchi.com> <3B85304F.5040504@optonline.net> <20010823193758.J44626@ns2.wananchi.com> <3B8543D9.1020508@optonline.net> <20010825085605.A71454@ns2.wananchi.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes kde seems to core dumping very often, but it generally hasn't slowed me down. I have it upt for hours, and have no real problems. I never found out when it happens, but for me Ill speculate that it dumps when Im exiting. Maybe 1 out of 3 times Ill find a kdeinit.core sitting in my home dir. But all in all its ok..... Odhiambo Washington wrote: > * Gerard Samuel [20010823 20:56]: writing on the subject 'Re: OT:Kde2.2' > | Originally all my *.kss files where 555. I chmoded them to 4555 and > | kcheckpass and the lock screen works, but the screensaver didnt. So I > | just changed *.kss back to 555 and left kcheckpass at 4555, and now I > | have my screensaver back and Im able to lock the screen and get out of > | it properly. Just one side effect. When locked the session is still > | visible, not a blank screen like it was in 2.1. > | > | Thanks, Ill look more into it.... > > > I followed your setup steps and I have everything (except KCD giving > Sigsev and CDROM still not accessible) working apart from the fact that > KDE now kinda misbehaves: > > Aug 25 08:51:05 alligator /kernel: pid 674 (kdeinit), uid 1000: exited on > signal 11 (core dumped) > Aug 25 08:51:58 alligator /kernel: pid 672 (kdeinit), uid 1000: exited on > signal 11 (core dumped) > > It just happens more often....... > > > | > | Odhiambo Washington wrote: > | >* Gerard Samuel [20010823 19:33]: writing on the > | >subject 'Re: OT:Kde2.2' > | >| I have kde 2.2 from ports with 4.3-stable, and the screen saver works. > | >| Im using the matrix one that came with it. What Im upset about is I > | >| have to ctrl-alt-backspace to kill x when I lock the screen, and I cant > | >| get kdemultimedia's cd player to work, keeps crashing. Other than that, > | >| its ok... > | > > | > > | >Yes. If you do > | > > | >cd /usr/local/bin > | > > | >chmod 4555 *.kss > | >chmod 4555 kcheckpass > | > > | >You will just unlock the screen by entering the password. > | > > | >Maybe you should first make a note of the perms on *.kss just in case you > | >want to revert back. > | > > | >The CD player also asks me to vrf that I have access to /dev/rmatcd0 or > | >whatever... > | > > | > > | >Try the above and lemme know if it has any effect on the screen savers. > | > > | >Thanks for the response. > | > > | > > | > > | >| Ill try building the latest and see if it will fix anything, but I > | >| haven't seen anything that says it does..... > | >| > | >| > | >| Odhiambo Washington wrote: > | >| >Anyone had luck with running Kde2.2 with the screensavers working? > | >| >How did you go about activating the screensavers? I try to activate mine > | >| >here but end up with blank screen all the time. Initially they seemed to > | >| >work until either, > | >| >(i) I changed the perms on *.kss in /usr/local/bin to 4555 or > | >| >(ii) I did > | >| > cd ~wash > | >| >rm -rf .kde/ > | >| >I am not sure which but I just upgraded to Kde2.2 on FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE > | >| >and trust me, I never had the screensavers work with Kde2.1. With XFCE > | >| >they seem to work okay, even with gdm (this monster corrupts the file > | >| >system, no?) > | >| > > | >| >Just looking out for ideas. > | >| > > | >| >I searched Kde list archives but it would appear that Kde was actually > | >| >meant for Linux, with which I don't have much hands-on experience. > | >| > > | >| >Thanks > | >| > > | >| >-Wash > | >| > > | >| >-- > | >| >Odhiambo Washington > | >| >Wananchi Online Ltd., > | >| >wash@wananchi.com 1st Flr Loita Hse. > | >| >Tel: 254 2 313985 Loita Street., > | >| >Fax: 254 2 313922 PO Box 10286,00100-NAIROBI,KE. > | >| > > | >| >Sleep away the years, sleep away the pain, wake tomorrow - a girl again. > | > > | >| >-Hal Summers > | >| > > | >| >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > | >| >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > | >| > > | >| > > | >| > | >| > | > > | >-Wash > | > > | >-- > | >Odhiambo Washington > | >Wananchi Online Ltd., > | >wash@wananchi.com 1st Flr Loita Hse. > | >Tel: 254 2 313985 Loita Street., > | >Fax: 254 2 313922 PO Box 10286,00100-NAIROBI,KE. > | > > | >The Tree of Learning bears the noblest fruit, but noble fruit tastes bad. > | > > | > | > > -Wash > > -- > Odhiambo Washington > Wananchi Online Ltd., > wash@wananchi.com 1st Flr Loita Hse. > Tel: 254 2 313985 Loita Street., > Fax: 254 2 313922 PO Box 10286,00100-NAIROBI,KE. > > Bureaucrats are the meat loaf of humanity. > -Pate's Prattle > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message