[gentoo-user] KDE 4.4.3 broke kmail/akonadi and VNC?

[James Cunning]

I recently did an emerge update world that upgraded KDE to 4.4.3 (276 
packages).  The emerge completed successfully, and I logged out and back in to 
KDE. I have noticed two problems so far:

1. I frequently use my desktop remotely via tightvnc and x11vnc, and now using 
the shift key to enter upper case letters and shifted numeric keys (!...@#$%^, 
etc.) no longer works.  I cannot enter my password to login without pressing 
shift-lock for the upper case letters.  Fortunately, my password doesn't 
require special characters above the numeric keys, or I wouldn't even be able 
to login to KDE.  I don't know if this problem also occurs at the console, as 
I haven't been able to visit the physical site yet.

Have any others seen this behavior?

2.  Kmail starts, but does not display the contact list because it says the 
akonadi server is not functional.  I had previously disabled nepomuk because 
its memory and CPU consumption were annoying. Now it seems that akonadi won't 
even function unless nepomuk is enabled.

Are there any work-arounds to this?
-- 
Jim

[gentoo-user] Confusion with eix output

[James Cunning]

I am having some trouble, I think, with my nvidia video driver, and eix 
produces some output I cannot decipher from information in the man page:

jlc64 X11 # eix nvidia-drivers
[D] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
 Available versions:  [M]71.86.07!s [M]~71.86.09!s 96.43.09!s ~96.43.11!s 
173.14.15!s ~173.14.18!s 180.29!s ~180.60!s {acpi custom-cflags gtk 
kernel_FreeBSD kernel_linux multilib userland_BSD}
 Installed versions:  190.42-r3!s(11:04:43 AM 04/21/2010)(acpi gtk 
kernel_linux multilib -custom-cflags)
 Homepage:http://www.nvidia.com/
 Description: NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries

The man page goes into great detail how to specify many things, but doesn't 
explain in simple terms the format of its default outputs.  In particular, I 
don't understand what the [D] means, but would appreciate any clues to a more 
comprehensible explanation for all its output.
-- 
Jim