[kde-freebsd] touch buttons on pavilion dv7

2014-01-11 Thread Mike Barnard
hi, I have installed FreeBSD 10 on my HP Pavilion dv7-1448DX. It has touch buttons for the wireless hardware on/off button, volume up/down and mute. None of these seem to work. I have KDE 4.10.5 installed. I have acpi_hp loaded but these buttons as well as the function keys for stop/play/pause/fo

[kde-freebsd] kde4-workspace -- no member named isEncrypted

2013-02-13 Thread Mike Barnard
Hi, I updated KDE4 from 4.8.4 to 4.9.5 and kde4-workspace fails to build. This is a clip of the error dumped: [ 60%] Building CXX object plasma/generic/dataengines/devicenotifications/CMakeFiles/plasma_engine_devicenotifications.dir/devicenotificationsengine.o /usr/ports/x11/kde4-workspace/work/k

[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1

2010-11-14 Thread Mike Barnard
Thanks Raphael, On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote: > > Hmm, you can always try to ask in the KDE forums, or even file a bug > > report to make sure it is not an upstream problem. > > > This thread might be useful too: > http://lists.kde.org/?t=12896568551&r=1&w=2 >

[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1

2010-11-13 Thread Mike Barnard
Thanks Rusty 2010/11/12 Rusty Nejdl > > Two things I found that helped for me in the NVIDIA world are: > My VGA card is Intel. > 1) Disable the BLUR effect. > disabled, but still the same effects.. > 2) Choose a different window decoration other than Oxygen. > kicked out Oxygen window decor

[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1

2010-11-12 Thread Mike Barnard
> > > I found that a new version of the nvidia driver was released a few weeks > back and am testing that out - 260.19.12. It seems to support additional > GLX extensions so I am hoping it behaves better with KDE. > > My VGA card is an Intel Q45 SVGA controller. I opted to upgrade to KDE 4.5.3, bu

[kde-freebsd] Re: kde4 fails to start after update.

2010-11-11 Thread Mike Barnard
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote: > > Hmm, if you're using a reasonably recent 8-STABLE, you shouldn't even be > able > to build xz from ports -- take a look at the Makefile, it refuses to build > with 9-CURRENT or a sufficiently recent 8-STABLE. > You are right, a usu

[kde-freebsd] Re: kde4 fails to start after update.

2010-11-11 Thread Mike Barnard
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote: > > > > If you're using 8-STABLE, you need to remove the xz port and use xz from > > base, which has had a library bump too; otherwise, the same applies to > the > > xz port. > > Yes I am using 8-STABLE. xz from stable was not there...

[kde-freebsd] Re: kde4 fails to start after update.

2010-11-11 Thread Mike Barnard
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Mike Barnard wrote: > > I'll give that a try... As i mentioned before, I have the latest stable > release and after upgrading to it, is when all this happened. > > This too fails but at least it has helped point me to the right place... it app

[kde-freebsd] Re: kde4 fails to start after update.

2010-11-11 Thread Mike Barnard
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote: > > As Alex said, please try starting KDE without KDM to see if that works; > furthermore, you should give the latest stable release, 4.5.3, a try. > I'll give that a try... As i mentioned before, I have the latest stable release and a

[kde-freebsd] kde4 fails to start after update.

2010-11-11 Thread Mike Barnard
Hi, I have upgraded to KDE4-4.5.1 and all its modules and cannot seem to startup KDE, I get the following error: Starting kdm4. Updating KDM configuration Information: reading pre-existing kdmrc /usr/local/kde4/share/config/kdm/kdmrc (config version 2.4) Warning: Do not know how to create missing

[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1

2010-11-01 Thread Mike Barnard
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:45 AM, David Naylor wrote: > > I only use KMail (without Kontact) and I've never seen akonadi use so much > resources. It does look like akonadi is misbehaving, perhaps upstream can > help with that. > > Yeah.. I'll wait for some upstream thoughts on this :-) Recompili

[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1

2010-11-01 Thread Mike Barnard
Hi, On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Mike Barnard wrote: > > as mentioned above, I think my PIM not working well is due to akonadi > crashing... I'll pay more attention to it next time it acts up and check > what is not running and what has dumped core. > OK.. I had some ti

[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1

2010-10-25 Thread Mike Barnard
Hi On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 1:13 PM, David Naylor wrote: > > > I do have the linux-flash plugin installed and nspluginwrapper. I'll get > it > > uninstalled and try out gnash. Although when KDE goes to sleep, my CPU is > > not chocking at all. > > I sometimes have firefox freeze on me because nsvi

[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1

2010-10-23 Thread Mike Barnard
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Rusty Nejdl wrote: > > Are you using the flash plugin and nspluginwrapper by any chance? If so, > try disabling it. I am still testing things but I was good for a few days > and then reinstalled that and found my cpu "leaked" again. I have removed > it and reins

[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1

2010-10-23 Thread Mike Barnard
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote: > At Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:15:41 +0300, > Mike Barnard wrote: > > I have tested with compositing disabled and there is some improvements. > > Although it does slow down after leaving it idle for a while. I have

[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1

2010-10-22 Thread Mike Barnard
> *Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"* >> >> I have this option enabled under Section "Device" already and still experienced the slowness. I have moved it to Section "Screen" and will report performance. -- Mike Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in a mill

[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1

2010-10-22 Thread Mike Barnard
2010/10/20 Rusty Nejdl > > > > > I am open to any ideas on this topic as well. From what I can basically > tell, I am having some sort of CPU leak with XORG. I can restart X (no need > to reboot) and my KDE becomes responsive again.

[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1

2010-10-22 Thread Mike Barnard
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote: > At Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:02:46 +0300, > Mike Barnard wrote: > > I am running FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE built as of Oct 6 17:34:53 EAT 2010. > Same > > day as when I did a portsnap and installed the packages needed to ru

[kde-freebsd] Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1

2010-10-20 Thread Mike Barnard
Hi, I am running FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE built as of Oct 6 17:34:53 EAT 2010. Same day as when I did a portsnap and installed the packages needed to run KDE. I am experiencing frequent problems with kde4. It gets excruciatingly slow and desktop effects keep going down. I tailed .xsession-errors and