From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Nov 9 17:16:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (acs-24-154-28-168.zoominternet.net [24.154.28.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5452B37B41A for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 17:16:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (topperwein.dyndns.org [192.168.168.10]) by topperwein.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAA1HSF35283 for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 20:17:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 20:17:23 -0500 (EST) From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: Chris BeHanna To: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: KDE init [was RE: DCOP server problem...] In-Reply-To: <20011109180124.31471.qmail@web14103.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20011109201553.X35109-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Galen Sampson wrote: > I have seen quite a few posts in here about problems with KDE. I > personally still have the problem that KDE will show its splash > screen, get to "initializing peripherals" and just sit there. I > have noticed a few PR's, etc., and KDE's bug database had at least > on message claiming this to be a problem with FreeBSD's threads. I > have gone so far as to remove every port that KDE depends on (except > X) and rebuilt through the ports, but I just haven't had any luck. > I am running Xfree86 3.3.6 (built from ports) over a year ago, and > KDE2 cvsuped many times, but the latest has been 7 days ago. Any > known workarounds/fixes would be most appreciated. There have been a lot of thread-safety problems fixed in Xlib in 4.x. You should strongly consider upgrading, unless your video card is not supported. Even then, if you can spring $40 for a new video card.... -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.) behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message