On Wednesday 19 March 2003 06:07 am, Jan Ciger wrote: > > Jan, > > > > This just occured to me.... When I had beta3 installed and just > > before RC1 came out qt3 and lib1t3 where upgraded. Let me see if my > > older disks are anywhere around... (slim chance) but just about that > > time my ability to launch kde3 died. And at that time I was using XFree > > 3.3.6 (the performace is better in an ATI Mobility chip than earlier > > versions of the 4 series XFree) Now if I go into 3.3.6 I get the exact > > same reaction from kde in normal mode as I do in Xnest or vnc with 4.3. > > The error it dies on is that DCOP server is failing. btw I can > > reproduce this error at any time by switching from one XFree version to > > the other. I found libqt3 8mdk and current is 13 let me downgrade and > > try it.... > > > > James > > This just confirms it - XFree 3.3.6 didn't have Render yet, that came only > with the 4.x series, that's why you have the problem. > > Some other people here already confirmed, that the problem goes away, when > you disable antialiasing in Qt and recompile it. > > I guess, that the bug is in Qt's handling of antialiasing, it does not fall > back to non-antialiased mode when Render is not available and crashes the > application. > > Jan
I'll ask again then. Should this be reported upstream? I didn't see anything about this in the KDE bugzilla. I did not check trolltech. -- Greg
