-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 17 March 2003 17:33, Bernt Christandl wrote: > Hi all, > > i'm trying to set up my laptop > > Siemens Lifebook C with > VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x > (rev 64) > > with woody and xfree86-4 and kde... > and i'm getting the blues! > > -> with xserver xfree86-mach64 (xfree86-3) and kde-3.1 > i had a running environment, but even with xfstt fonts were not > as with xfree86-4. And my grafic was not supporting GL stuff... > > -> with xfree86-xserver (xfree86-4) and kde-3.1 fonts were fine, > but when i switch back from my grafics-screen (ALT-CTRL F7) > to any ascii-console (ALT-CTRL-F1...6) i only see vertical > flickering lines... At least i could switch back to F7. > > -> then today i upgraded to kde-3.1.1 and qt-3.1.2 > to get rid of the message that 162 packages should be upgraded. > After that with xfree86-mach64 the kdm crashed 3 times so > X was not started at all. > > -> with xfree86-4 kdm runs at least, but still shows the bug > with/from qt-3.1.2 discussed on this list, so i downgraded > back to qt-3.1.1. > Now also the combination kdm/xfree86-mach64 is running. > > -> but then i realized, that the menus behind the mouse-buttons > are gone :( When i login (xfree86-3-or-4) i see in the upper > left corner 3 icons appearing and then the background is drawn > again (flat color, no wallpaper) "over that" and on my desktop > are no icons and no menus behind the mouse-buttos :( > > For space reasons i did a "apt-get clean" and now all my kde-3.1 stuff > is lost. Where can i find these packages now? How can i tell "ktown" > that i want to downgrade back to 3.1? > > Is anybody using that ATI Rage Mobility successfully with xfree86-4 > and can tell me how to configure it better than i have done?
deb http://ktown.kde.org/~nolden/X11 woody main gives you XFree 4.3 for woody. Maybe that helps you. The KDE problems are certainly not related to your graphics adaptor. > > With best regards, > > Bernt Christandl - -- We're not a company, we just produce better code at less costs. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralf Nolden [EMAIL PROTECTED] The K Desktop Environment The KDevelop Project http://www.kde.org http://www.kdevelop.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+dgegu0nKi+w1Ky8RAo9UAKCS309M8hE5+zaIiFCCA9FqkSNpTwCgu0wQ gt6aCwOr8z499q/WS7XWXl4= =g657 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----