On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Terry Smith wrote: > Rosenstrauch, David wrote: > > > >>Exit KDE and from a console session, remove KDE with > >> > >> pacman -Rd kde > >> > >>Then reinstall 3.4 with > >> > >> pacman -S kde > > > > > > > > Is it essential to do it this way? > > > > I did a "pacman -Syu" (which upgraded, but broke, KDE) followed by a "pacman > > -S kde" (and responding yes to all the "already installed; upgrade anyway?" > > messages). > > > > This did seem to work. Anyone have any reason why this wouldn't be > > sufficient? > > > > DR > > > > > > P.S. I did experience one problem after the upgrade: KDE's sound (arts or > > akodelib) is choppy on one of my PC's at home. But I'm not sure that that > > problem is attributable to any error in the upgrade. I'm guessing it's > > either: a) a bug in the new akodelib, or b) a problem with the kludgey new > > sound module my card needs (emu10k1x); that module is first appearing in > > 2.6.11, so maybe not all the kinks are worked out yet. Problem is > > definitely > > KDE related, though, as XMMS didn't have any such problem. I'm going to > > check > > out sound on a different box with a different card now, and see if maybe > > this > > is a module specific problem. If anyone else is having sound problems with > > the new KDE, though, please do chime in. > > > > Hi, > > Ditto on thanks for putting this up. Is kdm gone? I prefer it over gdm. > > Terry Smith > kdm is still there. Make sure you do: pacman -Rd kde pacman -S kde
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