A question. Will opensuse 11.1 offer a simple und robust way to upgrade
KDE 4.1 to 4.2 at the end of January and will this be a good advice. For
example i working with two monitors in Xinerama Modus and i heard this
is not good supported until now.
thank you
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officially there will be no upgrade to KDE4.2 in OpenSuSe 11.1. It does
not offer version upgrades during a release lifecycle. For that one
would have to run either a rolling release system like Arch or a cutting
edge distro like Fedora.
However The will obviously be 1-click installs for a community release
of KDE4.2 (made by largely the same people). This is an unofficial
upgrade to the latest KDE but I would not expect too many problems, I
did have a few dependency errors when using the community 1-click
upgrade in the past but all in all it was okay.
and yes upgrading to KDE4.2 is a very good advice, many features will
be introduced and it already is much more complete in beta then the
current 4.1.x branch. don’t know about xinerama though.
stefan
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thanks for your tips,
this makes it easier to make a decision in the next weeks.
Until now i’m using Suse 10.2 as an production system for print and web
and now i think the day comes to move forward…
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I use 4.1.3 in openSUSE 11, with the Nvidia driver, in a dual monitor
configuration every day without any issues.
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FWIW, I’ve been using KDE 4.2-beta from the UNSTABLE:/ repo for some
time now in 11.1, works perfectly well.
Just my 2c…
Cheers,
KV
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Bigdesktop (ATI equivalent for Xinerama, one framebuffer for both
screens) was working fine for me in Opensuse 11.0 in kde-4.0 and 4.1,
what isn’t working in kde-4.x until now are dual monitor Xorg
configurations with two independent screens. The second monitor simply
stays black, Xfce and Gnome are working in this configuration, though. I
use two independent screens due to a hardware limitation of my ATI x600
mobility graphics card that doesn’t allow me to have OpenGL apps
maximized on the second monitor in BigDesktop mode.
SignorRossi.
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@cdurbin: Does both of your screens run at the same native resolution?
I’ve tried dual screening with the nvidia driver with one screen running
at 1680x1050 and the other running at 1440x900, but for the smaller
screen it doesn’t run at native resolution and part of the desktop
doesn’t display.
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Normally, yes they both run at 1280x1024. One is hooked up to the analog
port and the other to the digital port on my docking station. I have
hooked a monitor up to the VGA port directly on the laptop and also a
projector to the VGA port as well and have noticed the same thing you
did. The screens displays fine on the higher resolution screen, but not
on the lower resolution screen. If I remember right though, it does let
me pan around the screen.
C.Durbin
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