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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Showstopper? tried KDE with Qt with Xft support on SuSE-7.1
From:       "F () lk Brettschneider" <gigafalk () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2002-03-20 8:07:02
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Hi,

Thanks a lot. I'll report that our sysadmin. ;-)

Ciao
F@lk


Martijn Klingens wrote:

> On Tuesday 19 March 2002 17:23, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > > After rebuild (now with Xft support on in qt-copy) all KDE applications
> > > crash with the same backtrace. I noticed it first with kdm, then tried
> > > to start other programs from fvwm2.
> >
> > I guess 7.1 just has a too old XFree86/Xft version, so it would be wise
> > to disable xft support on that
>
> Be careful with that:
> ----
> martijn@kenny:~ > rpm -qi `rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so`
> Name        : xdevel                      Relocations: (not relocateable)
> Version     : 4.2.0                       Vendor: (none)
> Release     : 2                           Build Date: ma 21 jan 2002 19:00:53
> CET
> Install date: wo 20 feb 2002 20:56:45 CET Build Host: amdsim2.suse.de
> Group       : X11/XFree86                 Source RPM: xf86-4.2.0-2.src.rpm
> Size        : 9848233                     License: 1994-2000 The XFree86
> Project, Inc.
> Summary     : Developing under XFree86\tm
> Description :
> This package contains the include files, libraries, and the imake templates
> for the X Window System.
> It is needed for the development and the compilation of X11 programs.
>
> SuSE series: x
> ----
>
> This one is part of the XF4.2 rpms that are available for download on
> ftp.suse.com and the various SuSE mirrors. I am running SuSE 7.1 here as well.
>
> I guess you can safely disable Xft for SuSE 7.1 on XFree < 4.2, as I can
> confirm crashes with 4.0.2 and other problems like the infamous
> kdeinit-not-using-AA bug with 4.1.
>
> I can wholeheartedly recommend Falk to update to 4.2 though, it works like a
> charm.
>
> Martijn


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