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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] GNOME 2.2.1 Desktop
From:       scott chevalley <avalon () osguru ! org>
Date:       2003-03-19 15:25:52
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Greg Meyer wrote:

>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.
>  
>
It wasn't a kde problem... a patch was applied to libqt3 between 12mdk 
and 13mdk that forces the use of AA fonts, which will fail if the Render 
extension is not present.  There's a link in a previous message that 
points to a version of libqt3 without that patch and it works fine.

Scott



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