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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] GNOME 2.2.1 Desktop
From:       "Frederic Crozat" <fcrozat () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2003-03-19 15:44:07
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On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:25:52 -0500, scott chevalley wrote:

> 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.

Render is NOT needed for doing AA with Xft2.. This was only needed when
using Xft1..

-- 
Frederic Crozat
MandrakeSoft


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