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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] GNOME 2.2.1 Desktop
From:       Greg Meyer <gkmeyer () nysscpa ! org>
Date:       2003-03-19 12:04:39
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On Wednesday 19 March 2003 06:07 am, Jan Ciger wrote:
> > Jan,
> >
> >    This just occured to me....  When I had beta3 installed and just
> > before RC1 came out qt3 and lib1t3 where upgraded.  Let me see if my
> > older disks are anywhere around... (slim chance) but just about that
> > time my ability to launch kde3 died. And at that time I was using XFree
> > 3.3.6 (the performace is better in an ATI Mobility chip than earlier
> > versions of the 4 series XFree) Now if I go into 3.3.6 I get the exact
> > same reaction from kde in normal mode as I do in Xnest or vnc with 4.3.
> > The error it dies on is that DCOP server is failing.  btw I can
> > reproduce this error at any time by switching from one XFree version to
> > the other.  I found libqt3 8mdk and current is 13 let me downgrade and
> > try it....
> >
> > James
>
> This just confirms it - XFree 3.3.6 didn't have Render yet, that came only
> with the 4.x series, that's why you have the problem.
>
> Some other people here already confirmed, that the problem goes away, when
> you disable antialiasing in Qt and recompile it.
>
> I guess, that the bug is in Qt's handling of antialiasing, it does not fall
> back to non-antialiased mode when Render is not available and crashes the
> application.
>
> Jan

I'll ask again then.  Should this be reported upstream?  I didn't see anything 
about this in the KDE bugzilla.  I did not check trolltech.
-- 
Greg

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