Richard <eyelagui at adinet.com.uy> wrote: > Is not about KDE (my mistake) is xorg who needs new driver "format?".... > and KDE4 needs "that" "new" Xorg > I dont know what, why or where but there is "something" on "new" > KDE/Xorg. > You can't use the same driver on KDE4 and KDE3 even if you compile them > for the same kernel. > > I dont know too much about "new" KDE/Xorg, but i do know that to use > Scribus on Linux i have to keep on KDE3.5 otherwise if i go KDE4 i cant > work on Scribus while unplugged because i have no battery management at > all. > AND on KDE4 there is no chance to use the correct video driver so the > performance on Scribus while too much graphics will be worst.
I'm probably misunderstanding you, but I haven't found any xorg driver problem with KDE 4.3.3. I'm a VectorLinux beta tester and currently have KDE 4.3.3 running under VectorLinux 6 SOHO beta 1.6. Everything seems to be working in the video realm. My video card is an ATI Radeon 9200 using the open-source xorg radeon driver. This system is old (1.3 GHz Celeron Tualatin, 1 gig RAM) and is not the best for KDE of any recent flavor, but it performs in a usable fashion. Scribus 1.3.5 is in the distro default installation and hopefully will be updated before the final release of SOHO. It loaded speedily and looks okay so far. I've never been fond of the KDE environment and I use XFce on my "real" system. As a beta tester who won't be using the final product, I haven't given all applications a workout, just see if they start and appear to run okay. You may have encountered something I haven't yet found. This computer isn't a laptop, so I can't say what happens with battery management. I'd think that was more dependent on the underlying distro than on KDE 4.x. Why would you be using the same driver as you would for KDE 3? Perhaps you're doing an upgrade from KDE 3.x to KDE 4.x. Maybe that's not a good idea because KDE 4.x has many changes that go deep into the system. Maybe you should do a clean installation of a distro with KDE 4.3.3 built in. Then you should have a video driver that works properly with the system. --Judy M. USA
