7.1-STABE/Xorg 7.4/KDE4.2

Robert Noland rnoland at FreeBSD.org
Sun Feb 22 20:39:21 PST 2009


On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 21:36 -0500, Michael L. Squires wrote:
> I was unable to use hald/dbus with KDE4.2 until I took "kdm" out of 
> /etc/ttys and wrote a simple script that started it up in 
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d.
> 
> I saw this discussed elsewhere, tried it - it worked!
> 
> I'm currently running "kdm" in daemon mode; /etc/ttys starts it in 
> "nodaemon" mode but it's not obvious to me which is correct.

If this was related to the hald/dbus xorg race.  If you have the latest
Xserver, that issue should be resolved.

robert.

> I previously had a problem with KDE4.1 on a Toshiba 8100 with the Savage 
> video chipset which would lock the screen when the screensaver came on. 
> With the "vesa" driver using Xorg 7.4 compiled on 2/20 and KD4.2 the 
> screensaver never comes on; I'm currently trying the "savage" driver.
> 
> The other machine is a Supermicro P6DC6 dual Xeon with a Radeon X800 card 
> which is currently cloneing in both monitors; I haven't tried setting up a 
> Xinerama-like display using xrandr, that's for the future.  The 
> screensaver does work with KDE4.1 on this system.
> 
> Mike Squires
> mikes at siralan.org
> 
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Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
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