I recently had 11.2 installed and I use KDE. Before this all I had 11.1 running with KDE and no problems. Now on 11.2 I have this weard distortions on KDE:
> I would remove openOffice
> Remove the kde4 community
> Disable Videolan or remove it
> Change Packman Priority to 20
>
> You could add these to improve kde4
>
> Desktop
> ‘Index of /repositories/KDE:/43/openSUSE_11.2’
> (http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/43/openSUSE_11.2/)
>
> Community
> ‘Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_11.2_KDE_43’
> (http://tinyurl.com/yg466l2)
>
> Now do this to Packman
> ‘ImageBam - Fast, Free Image Hosting and Photo Sharing’
> (http://www.imagebam.com/image/6b67e954459645/)
>
> do the same switch method to the new kde4 repos
I know your just trying to help, but changing repo’s isn’t the solution to
everything.
I don’t see how removing the openoffice repo helps with a video problem.
The only logic i could think of is that you think that community repo’s
aren’t tested as good as the official ones.
That would make sense.
But then you advise to change the complete official supported KDE desktop
with the community supported one!
All this just because of a video problem!
What happend to looking a logs to see if there’s anything wrong?
How about what videocard driver is he using, opensource closed source?
You can’t just tell people to change their entire system just because of a
little glitch.
It seems like a video driver problem to me, so i’ll start looking at related
log files to see if there is anything wrong.
I never had an ati card so i can’t tell what logs are provided but
/var/log/Xorg.0.log would be a place to start.
I find the advice of Chris Maaskant very usefull and more based on tackling the problem then just some guru telling me …do this…do that…without telling why I should do so…
In the mean time I have tryed also the properitairy driver from ATI for this card. After install my screen looks perfect, so it looks that this driver solved the problem. Only I ran into a strange side-effect: scrolling in browser (Firefox) now takes ages…it is not workable in this way. So I un-installed this driver again and now I am back with Linux-OSS-driver with same distortions again…
I am also experiencing the same kind of distortions on the screen when
I am using desktop effects. Those were not present on 11.1, and I
suspect it’s either driver-related or xorg-server related. My card is
ati mobility U1, quite old (RS100 4336), and I am using the radeon
open source driver, as I believe no other driver supports this card.
On a side note - I tried the other day the Fedora 12 KDE livecd. It
was the first time I saw kwin desktop effects run so smoothly and so
quickly. Tried to investigate what that might be but the only thing
that seemed plausible was that Fedora uses a newer version of xorg. I
haven’t had a chance to confirm that, which is why I am saying I only
suspect that is the case. Used glxinfo, which proved direct rendering
is enabled, but with glxgears I would only get about 60 fps. On
OpenSUSE I get 250 with far worse performance.
I also tried running Compiz 0.8.4 from cyberorg repository. It ran
slightly better, but tooltips would appear damaged, some shadows
too.So now I am back to no desktop effects, and the desktop is
perfect.
Sorry to be so lengthy, I hope someone with deeper knowledge would
have some clue as to what causes the distortions…
ritslinux wrote:
>
> I do not understand all you are saying:
>
> What should openoffice distord on kde ?
> Videolan I have VLC running, so thats why
>
> Desktop and Community for kde43 will maybe help.
> I will do so.
>
> What is your last issue:
> Now do this to Packman
> ImageBam - Fast, Free Image Hosting and Photo Sharing
>
> I don;t understand
>
>
> In the mean time I have tryed also the properitairy driver from ATI for
> this card. After install my screen looks perfect, so it looks that this
> driver solved the problem. Only I ran into a strange side-effect:
> scrolling in browser (Firefox) now takes ages…it is not workable in
> this way.
I’ve seen this firefox problem before.
Try searching for it on opensuse forums.
Can’t help you any further with that because i never had that problem.
Maybe it’s because i use an nvidia card.
I seriously doubt it has anything to do with the repositories, or with differently packaged software, as I experienced the issue equally on the Live CD, on a fresh install, and currently with Packman enabled and used.
These distortions have to do with the graphical driver. I see no context with removing open office repositories. The only solution is to get a bugfree driver.