On 3/18/2011 4:25 AM, Will Stephenson wrote:
Before you give up on progress, I would try to localise the problem with 11.4. I almost did give up.
Google says the graphics hardware on the R31 is an intel i830, which probably doesn't support any advanced graphics. My IBM has i845 which might not be all that advanced either.
* Is the lockup/display fade issue specific to KDE? Try choosing IceWM from the login screen instead Until finding this thread, the idea that it might be KDE over a more general X11 issue didn't cross my mind. IceWM worked with no trouble.
** Run "kwriteconfig --file kwinrc --group Compositing --key Enabled false" ** (this edits kwinrc for you) Before doing this, I had tried several things, most of which did not work. I was able to use the xorg.conf.install
* If not specific to KDE, perhaps your hardware does not support modesetting - boot with kernel param 'nomodeset' I found this might not be very conclusive. According to 11.3 release notes http://www.suse.com/relnotes/i386/openSUSE/11.3/RELEASE-NOTES.en.html "On Intel without KMS the Xserver falls back to the fbdev driver" which seemed to work for me anyway.
NB I blacklisted a bunch of intel chipsets from using KDE's desktop effects before 11.4 was released, but only the ones I know have problems. I guess I have another one for you. After doing the kwinrc thing you described, I was able to run X11 with KDE4. my chipset is 845G
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