On 23/04/11 17:43, C wrote:
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 09:02, Basil Chupin wrote:
If you add and update to these repos you'll get KDE4.6.2:
http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories#Upstream_release_aka._KR46_.28KDE_SC...
I'm using this now, and it has a different array of minor bugs, but a lot of the old ones are fixed.
C. Many thanks, C, for this. I shall attempt this act of bravery - and "jump off the cliff top" :-) - tomorrow. Haha... it's not a long fall. There are spikes at the bottom though :-)
Thank you, C, for your helpful advice. I was forced, nevertheless, to attend all lectures in the first semester in "The Basic Chaos Theory" to understand your instructions about the repos to use, but being more than "just a pretty face" I was able to solve this without too many problems :-D .
Overall, KDE4.6.2 works better than 4.6.0. I don't have any problems using VLC in KDE4.6.2.
Well, now....I am glad, and I admit also stunned, to hear this. I had nothing BUT hassles in getting vlc to work! xine, as usual, continued to work perfectly [1]. vlc just wouldn't work - period. It was worse than the original installation on 11.4: at least with 11.4/KDE4.6.0 where the suggested fix of running vlc was with the "prefix" of 'strace' in the command line for vlc. To get vlc to "work" after the upgrade to KDE 4.6.2 required the complete re-installation of vlc from the packman repo itself using Pascal's "One click install". BUT, repeat BUT, then I had to reconfigure the sound because the audio was (I don't really go for vulgarities, you know...) just a tadd totally "RS". To get the sound working correctly I had to (again :'( ) uninstall pulseaudio :'( . Once pulseaudio was uninstalled, the audio was normal, with no stuttering, no hiccups, no jerks. (Isn't there anyone who can get rid of this abomination called pulseaudio once and for all?! :-( .)
I've bumbled into a few minor bugs/issues. Some are my own fault, some are known bugs, some are not related to the version of KDE4 (ie they are general 11.4 bugs), etc. Nothing so far is what I'd consider a showstopper.
As I have only just now managed to run 4.6.2 I have yet to discover the marvellous bugs in it so be patient with me :-) . Thanks again for your help - greatly appreciated and gratefully acknowledged. BC PS
Oh, and make sure if you're using a nVidia card plus binary driver, that you've got the latest version of the driver installed. There have been issues with some of the recent drivers. I'm using the latest from here: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122606 on a 64 Bit install and not having any issues.
Ah, and thanks for this "heads up". I installed the driver before I started anything - and just doing the installation of the driver was an experience in itself! :-( . Fortunately I remembered a few things from years ago and finally got the latest driver installed. (I really pity the poor buggers who come in into oS from scratch and without any background knowledge :-( ). -- "My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I am going to be an uncle or an aunt." Chuck Nevitt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org