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List:       kde-linux
Subject:    [kde-linux] Fwd: KDE 2.2 upgrade
From:       "Brett I.Holcomb" <bholcomb () cableone ! net>
Date:       2001-09-01 21:17:56
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 I know there have been other posts on this subjects (I saw them in the
 archive) but I need to add my comments and maybe get some feedback.

 I am running Caldera Workstation 3.1 which came with KDE 2.1.  Last night I
 UPGRADED to KDE 2.2 using the Caldera Workstation 3.1 RPM from the KDE ftp
 site - this is not a vendor package nor did I build it - it is a KDE package
so I didn't mess up a build.

 Since the upgrade I've never skde-linuxeen the KControl backtrace dialog so
much and  last night I did more fschks then I've done in a year because of
 the desktop hanging so badly NO mouse or keystrokes worked.   Good thing I
 wasn't running a MS system or I'd have reinstalled 20 times!   Either I did
 something wrong or there are some serious problems here.

 According to the readme that was in the KDE RPM I needed to do the following
(a directory on my system called kde22 contains the directories downloaded
from KDE)

 rpm -U qt2/*
 rpm -i libxmlkde/*
 rpm -i pcre/*
 rpm -U kdelibs/* kdebase/*

 I did that and then did each package in turn checking the dependences
 first. I did NOT force the install.

 In addition to the problems above I now have:

 1.  Sound is messed up.  I no longer get startup and shutdown sounds.  I
 can play a CD (only with kscd) but XMMS won't play wave files and the new
 media player (noatun) never will start - it gives a spinning disk on the
 task bar then disappears forever (I don't see it in the task list).  I have
 a Santa Cruz card and sound worked perfectly before this.

 2.  Control Center says Information "No information on the sound card" even
 as root.

 3.  I lost many personalized settings such as the mixer setup (I had it set
 to stay in the tray and expand to a full mixer display when clicked).  I
 had to reset that.

 4.  I used to have a Cirrus Logic Sound card in the Sound Server section of
 the Control Center.  No I have opensound or none.

 5.  I have a backtrace dialog box that flashes briefly when I log off but I
 can't see what it disappears.

 6.  The permissions for /dev/dsp*, /dev/audio*, and /dev/mixer* keep
 getting set back to rw by root only.   I had them setup so all could use
 them (chmod a_rw ...).  It appears to happen after a reboot and I
 understand it may be related to some scripts called givedesktop and
 takedesktop but I can't find the  scripts.

 If I've messed up please let me know but I sure am not happy with the
 stabilty of KDE 2.2 and the fact I'm having to redo a lot of stuff.  I do
 like a lot of the features in it though.  I just want to find out what
happened.

--

Brett I. Holcomb
AKA Grunt
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