KDE 4 live image for i686

[Andrew Parker]

On Dec 26, 2007 7:33 AM, Andrew Parker <andrewparker at bigfoot.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 25, 2007 8:47 AM, Sebastian Vahl <ml at deadbabylon.de> wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I've prepared a KDE4 live image for i686 for testing purposes. Last
> > weeks rawhide images didn't include the kde one because of a problem
> > with intel video drivers. Kwin would automatically enable compositing
> > support on such cards which seems to be broken atm. But we haven't a
> > bug report for that, yet. So if someone would like to provide one,
> > please test these images. radeon/nv users should not have these
> > problems.
> >
> > http://www.fedoraforum.de/iso/test/rawhide-KDE4-i686-20071220/rawhide-KDE4-i686-20071220.iso
> > http://www.fedoraforum.de/iso/test/rawhide-KDE4-i686-20071220/rawhide-KDE4-i686-20071220.sha1sum
> >
> > These images are based on rawhide from 2007-12-20 and also include
> > Jeremy's modifications to the kickstarts (like on the normal rawhide
> > image).
> >
> > I'm not sure if installation would work. With my limited test
> > capabilities over christmas I cannot test these properly. In my tests
> > on one machine I've got problems with the partitioning. If this also
> > happens to you, please bug it.
> >
> >
> > Merry christmas,
> >
> > Sebastian
> >
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>
> Tried this on a three hosts, and i have problems galore.
>
> Homebrew host 1:
>   Adding news ticker to the taskbar then klicking on the pager
> resulted in the news ticker story being displayed
>   The Lock/Logout applet corrupts the display, although the "The
> session was locked" dialog is OK, and the desktop is restored
> correctly.
>
> Homebrew host 2:
>   Second monitor of a dual display has a corrupted text display during
> both RHGB and KDE session
>   On login, I get a window with "The audio playback device ALi M5455
> with ALC850 (ALi M5455) does not work.  Failing back to Esound (ESD)."
>
> On a Dell Inspiron 1420 (Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile
> GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)):
>   RHGB display is corrupted, although the KDE desktop is OK
>   Konqueror can't display any web pages (either by hostname or IP
> address) with the somewhat unhelpful "An error occurred while loading
> http://".  telnet confirms its not a network issue.  The News Ticker
> applet doesn't display any results either, so it looks like a KDE HTTP
> problem?
>   Using the slideshow for desktop backgrounds occasionally results in
> parts of the background being corrupted, most often the top 50 or so
> lines.
>
> Common problems:
>   nm-applet crashes when clicking on any entry in the menu (X Window
> System error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes))
>   Adding applets to the RHS of the taskbar where the system tray is
> resizes the taskbar (down from 100%) and leaves a white block to the
> left of the taskbar.
>   The license type drop down in Konqueror start up page only displays
> each option when the mouse is down over that option or is already
> selected (i.e. you can't see unselected options without clicking on
> them)
>   The Lock/Logout applet only lets me lock the desktop.
>   When logging into KDE, the usual "Starting desktop" etc messages on
> the splash screen are not present
>   One of the "Useful Tips" in KTip states that pressing the middle
> mouse button on the desktop will give a list of all windows on each
> desktop, but it doesn't work.  Some other tips don't work, so maybe
> KTip is not KDE4?
>   Typing "konsole" in the Search part of the K Menu tries to run
> konsolekalendar rather than konsole.  It looks like I have to type
> "terminal".  i.e. knowing how to launch it from the command line won't
> help me here.
>   The CD's "Boot from local drive" option reboots (after a prompt)
> then boots from the CD again.
>

No joy with qemu either.  It gets half way through starting KDE, then
falls back to the login page.