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Hello All,

Have any of you installed the K window manager on a PCI Mac?

Thanks,
Michael

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=> Hello All,
=>
=> Have any of you installed the K window manager on a PCI Mac?
=>
=> Thanks,
=> Michael

I tried both beta 1 and beta 2 on my 7600 with 96mb ram and neither one
worked very well.  Surprisingly beta 2 was absolutely horrid, I couldn't
do anything.

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"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before.
But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."

          - Paul Dirac

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Quote:> KDE beta 3 rpms have just been created and posted to the linuxppc.org site.
> Try them out.  They're supposed to be a big improvement.

I tried, but I end up with a segmentation fault at launch.

I took the qt-1.32, kdesupport, kdelibs and kdebase SRPMs, and removed
all of the '-O2' flags, to avoid the internal compiler error in gcc. But
after a succesful build, the applications in /opt/kde/bin do nothing
else than core dumping...  

I think the problem is in the kdelibs package (I tried to replace it
with the Beta2 one, and some of apps worked). I rebuilt it with the
'-O2' flag when it was possible (there is only six/seven files that make
gcc hang, in kdecore, kdeui and khtmlw). Same result.

Also, I've tried the Beta2 binary packages, it works fine, except that
the HTML widgets has a very lazy behaviour : it only display its title,
instead of its content! (with kfm and kdehelp). Does the problem come
from me, or from the packages?

Does anyone have suggestions?

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I had the exact same problems as you.  I compiled everything from scratch
and all it would do is core dump.  I removed everything and got the binary
rpms from linuxppc.org and they worked fine.

=>
=> > KDE beta 3 rpms have just been created and posted to the linuxppc.org site.
=> > Try them out.  They're supposed to be a big improvement.
=>
=> Did you succeed in compiling them?
=>
=> I tried, but I end up with a segmentation fault at launch.
=>
=> I took the qt-1.32, kdesupport, kdelibs and kdebase SRPMs, and removed
=> all of the '-O2' flags, to avoid the internal compiler error in gcc. But
=> after a succesful build, the applications in /opt/kde/bin do nothing
=> else than core dumping...  
=>
=> I think the problem is in the kdelibs package (I tried to replace it
=> with the Beta2 one, and some of apps worked). I rebuilt it with the
=> '-O2' flag when it was possible (there is only six/seven files that make
=> gcc hang, in kdecore, kdeui and khtmlw). Same result.
=>
=> Also, I've tried the Beta2 binary packages, it works fine, except that
=> the HTML widgets has a very lazy behaviour : it only display its title,
=> instead of its content! (with kfm and kdehelp). Does the problem come
=> from me, or from the packages?
=>
=> Does anyone have suggestions?
=>
=> --
=> Laurent MOUSSAULT


=> Don't dream it, Be it. -- Frank'n'Furter

_______________________
Frank Riley

"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before.
But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."

          - Paul Dirac

--
Jerry Quinn              Tel: (514) 761-8737

Speech Technology Infrastructure