Richard wrote:
On Monday 07 July 2008 1:18:23 am Sharique uddin Ahmed Farooqui wrote:
Hi, I know some of guys here using kde4.1 beta 2. How's you experience ? Should I install kde4.1 beta 2 or not?
My experience with kde4.1 beta 2 on a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop was not good. I first installed the crippled version from the dvd, then deleted that and went for the 4.1. Installation was ok but as some have said, some apps were not available. No big deal as it's a beta. For a while it worked ok but following an update, it went South. On boot my desktop was a blank with no panel, just a white screen. Using alt-f2 for a command line I could start apps, but no panel, no desktop Alt-tab would sho the running apps. Tried the usual startkde and lots of other finger magic, but no magic. I could get a good desktop if I logged in as root. A few days later I deleted the whole thing after a reinstall did nothing new. Went back to Kde3 which worked fine during all this. Will try again in a month or two but not going to spend more time experimenting.
No I did not submit a bugzilla. It got so screwed up I dont think I could have made a decent report.
YMMV,
Regards, Richard
Hi Richard I had this very problem today after updating to the latest KDE 4.1 (KDE 4.1 RC1, I believe). The cause seemed to be an incomplete installation since I was able to do a 'zypper ref' on the command line, then go into Yast2->Software Management->Choose 'Patterns'->'KDE4 Base System', then right click on the package list on the right and choose' Update if newer version available'. I did did for 4 patterns - KDE4 Base system, KDE3 base system, KDE4 desktop environment and KDE3 desktop environment. Yast downloaded about 200Mib of updates, then I was able to restart and login successfully to KDE4. Should be worth a try, KDE 4 keeps improving on a daily basis and some silly bugs get eliminated pretty quickly. Cheers Pete -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org