RE: [SLE] Font warning - KDE 3.0.2 / SuSE 7.3
Be careful with upgrading to XF86 4.2, because there is a bug in the display of pseudo colors. Now, normally that should not be a problem, but if you have an 'old' application which uses pseudo color and wants to create it's own colormap, then you have a problem with 4.2. We brought this bug to the attention of the X people, and they admitted it. But I don't know how long it will take for them to come up with a 4.3..... Regards Harry
-----Original Message----- From: Joe Sullivan [SMTP:firechild@telia.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 4:27 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Font warning - KDE 3.0.2 / SuSE 7.3
Hey,
Anyone planning on installing the newly-released KDE 3.0.2 on SuSE 7.3, keep in mind that the QT3 RPMs are built without anti-aliasing support. And you're not given a choice in the matter.
This because of some kind of bug it causes with XFree86 4.0.1.
I found this out the hard way when I upgraded everything to KDE 3.0.2 including the QT3 packages... only to restart KDE and find my desktop looking horribly jagged.
As a user of XFree86 4.0.2, this is extremely irritating.
Of course, rather than get people to upgrade their X server another .0.1 level, we all get hosed instead. Who's upgrading KDE but not their X server?
You'll need to rebuild QT3 from the source package, changing the build.sh and qt3.spec files so they allow Xft.
Sitting here waiting for my rebuild of the RPM to finish... Hoping I remember not to trust the QT3 packages for SuSE next time.
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On Friday 05 July 2002 02:12, Berge, Harry ten wrote:
Be careful with upgrading to XF86 4.2, because there is a bug in the display of pseudo colors. Now, normally that should not be a problem, but if you have an 'old' application which uses pseudo color and wants to create it's own colormap, then you have a problem with 4.2.
We brought this bug to the attention of the X people, and they admitted it. But I don't know how long it will take for them to come up with a 4.3.....
Regards Harry I wonder if that's why the Netscape Directory Server admin console won't work when run as a client on my SuSE 8 box. I am pretty sure I am getting some kind of error saying it can't run with a 16 bit color depth. That stinks! It is just another reason I have to use an OS from the Ring Wraiths of Redmond. I don't recall trying Cigwin XF86 for this purpose. I only used X-Win32 IIRC. Thanks for the pointer. I'll investigate.
Steven
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