I am still continuing my series of private builds using the traditional means (./configure; make; make install) following KDE_2_0_BRANCH from CVS. The point is to help Ivan sort out packaging problems from upstream problems.
I just finished builds on both my Debian and RedHat computers using today's CVS. It has actually been two weeks since I built, and there were numerous changes including a new version of qt-copy (2.2.2). Here are some "upstream" issues I found. (1) kaiman caused a crash (the panel disappeared and so did some borders, but I could get out of it with ctrl-alt-BS). The next time I started it from the command line rather than from the multimedia K menu, and everthing worked fine (including the mp3 playing). In the month or so I have been playing mp3's with kaiman, I have never encountered this sort of instability before. So I will keep an eye on this one including more testing of the K menu. (2) kmid still does not work. Same error message as for the last month or so... Those are the only issues I am aware of in my version of KDE2. Here are some things that worked. (1) kmidi works fine if you load sound fonts first. AFAIK you can only load sound fonts for the SBLive if you are using the ALSA driver. (2) help works without any of the problems that others have encountered on this list. For example, I can launch help without konqueror and konqueror comes right up with the help centre displayed. I am actually building KDE2 on two separate computers (it requires 4 hours on the Athlon 600 and 17 hours on the pentium-133). Since qt-copy had changed so radically I didn't try Ivan's Debian patch for it, but I may try that next week so that I hope to have both a debian build on the Debian potato system and traditional build on the RedHat system as a direct comparison for each other. Ivan, that is a good start to the web site. If you can give high priority to writing a cook book of exactly how to build the Debian version, I will test your instructions. Alan email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 250-727-2902 FAX: 250-721-7715 snail-mail: Dr. Alan W. Irwin Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3055, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 3P6 __________________________ Linux-powered astrophysics __________________________
