Felix, Duncan, thanks for the responses!
------- Original Message ------- >From : Felix Miata[mailto:mrma...@earthlink.net] Sent : 11/20/2011 2:17:13 AM To : kde-linux@kde.org Cc : Subject : RE: Re: [kde-linux] Non-functinal kde displays with 11.4 On 2011/11/20 14:08 (GMT+0800) Goh Lip composed: >> Felix Miata posted on Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:17:13 -0500 as excerpted: >>> On 2011/11/20 04:53 (GMT) Duncan composed: >>>> the main distro's shipping versions are months behind, so 4.7 won't hit >>>> most of them them until this spring. =:^( >>> openSUSE 12.1, with KDE 4.7.2, seems to have been released officially a >>> few days ago. I was using 12.1 long before it was announced (throughout >>> its development period). >> Cool. =:^) > BTW, Chakra is now on 4.7.3 The OP could more easily have oS 12.1 and KDE 4.7.2 than Chakra by s/11.4/12.1/ in /etc/zypp/repos.d/*repo, then 'zypper ref; zypper dup' from any root tty login. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. Felix, I don't know what ".sig" is yet, so I hope I don't make that mistake again! So fellas from the top, my interest now it trying to get a kde (apparently 4.7) working with openSuse 12.1 when I can buy a distro DVD. Right now I'm on dial-up and I have to conduct these kde-linux messages via webmail to use my registered address. Because I can't get a functional kde (apparently 4.6) display, I don't have a kde version to give. As I recall from the boxes with xorg.conf files the openSuse 11.4 DVD distro has kde 4.6.0, but that's a guess. The kde display problem I've have is more general than a specific hardware combination. Something like the composting Felix mentioned is more likely the problem. Since the LXDE desktop knows how to configure a display with my hardware, shouldn't I be able to somehow capture that information and feed it into kde to get a display? After an install from the openSuse 11.4 DVD, I'm left with a blank screen or a huge cursor. From there I can only cut the power to force a reboot. Typing 3 into the grub menu gets me to level 3 as root. With the boxes that had xorg.conf files, I can copy them into /etc/Xll and reboot. In those two cases (boxes I don't have access to now) kde displays just fine. What I was hoping for here was a formula for me to capture the display information LXDE is using and put it into a format like xorg.conf that kde can use. Of course knowing what LXDE is doing with display information is not a specialty of this list. Also my interest is now in openSuse 12.1 rather than 11.4, so maybe I can't get there from here. Frank K ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
