Just wanted to say that I have gotten this combination to be rock stable
and finally got rid of the nagging mouse problems. The most unusual thing
was my xorg.conf seems to have been the root of all of the problems.
I don’t know why, but I suspect the nVidia Settings applet created some
stuff and munged it with my existing file. I have dual screens and they have
always been a problem to get going initially. The problems I found were
duplication in many parts leaving Xinerma off when it should have been on
and Compositing disabled, for what reason I have no idea, duplicate Monitor
and Screen entries. Performance has gone way up and programs are now stable
where before they would just give up and crash. I just wonder how many
people having serious issues might just have bodged xorg.conf’s? With the
heavy video use of KDE4, the video system has to be at its very best lest
you descend into chaos.
One bug I do have…I can’t update anymore. I get lots of conflicts when I
try to update, most want me to downgrade to KDE 4.1 something, even when I
just try to select stuff that is applicable to 4.2.3 only. 
Post your repo’s
zypper lr --details
FYI: There has just been an update in 42’ so now we have kde4.2.4
e?1034h# | Alias | Name | Enabled |
Refresh | Priority | Type | URI
| Service
—±---------------------±----------------------±--------±--------±---------±-------±-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------±-------
1 | KDE:42 | KDE:42 | Yes | Yes | 99
| rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/42/openSUSE_11.1/
|
2 | Novell_Client | Novell Client | Yes | No | 99
| yast2 | iso:///?iso=Novell_Client_SLE11-i586-20081218-
CD1.iso&url=file:///home/tonyg/Downloads/Novell/ |
3 | Nvidia | Nvidia | Yes | Yes | 99
| rpm-md | http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.1
|
4 | Packman | Packman | Yes | Yes | 99
| rpm-md | http://packman.unixheads.com/suse/11.1/
|
5 | VideoLan | VideoLan | Yes | Yes | 99
| rpm-md | http://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/11.1/
|
6 | devel:tools:building | devel:tools:building | Yes | Yes | 99
| rpm-md |
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/tools:/building/openSUSE_11.1/
|
7 | openSUSE 11.1-0 | openSUSE 11.1-0 | Yes | No | 99
| yast2 | cd:///?devices=/dev/sr0
|
8 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.1-Debug | No | Yes | 100
| NONE | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/
|
9 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | 100
| yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/repo/non-oss/
|
10 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Oss | Yes | Yes | 100
| yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/
|
11 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.1-Source | No | Yes | 100
| NONE | http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/
|
12 | repo-update | openSUSE-11.1-Update | Yes | Yes | 20
| rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.1/
|
Change the priority in Updates to 99
KDE4.2.* (How To Add) Guide. - openSUSE Forums
FYI:
You should disable Videolan and make sure all multi-media is from Packman, you can do an unconditional update in Packman to achieve that.
I always disable my install media too.
> Change the priority in Updates to 99
> ‘KDE4.2.* (How To Add) Guide. - openSUSE Forums’
> (http://tinyurl.com/o9eah6)
Following through the instructions given at that link,
one thing I notice immediately is that I am running a version of compiz that
is newer than the one available. I have never specifically updated compiz
so not sure why that would be. It is the only one showing as red. Installed
is 0.7.8-9.1
available is:
0.7.8-8.11
Roll it back.
I would use Update all in this list Unconditionally in kde4 desktop 42’
Well I spoke too soon.
Yesterday I enable FolderView on the desktop and this morning I lost my
mouse click again. I had to do my usual logout routine, but then when
I tried to log back in I couldn’t it would just dump me back to the login.
SO I entered failsafe mode to get into my desktop. I disable folder view and
also noticed that Lancelot was gone. At present I still cannot login
without going into failsafe mode. Maybe I’ll update to 4.2.4 today.
> Yesterday I enable FolderView on the desktop and this morning I lost my
> mouse click again. I had to do my usual logout routine, but then when
> I tried to log back in I couldn’t it would just dump me back to the login.
> SO I entered failsafe mode to get into my desktop. I disable folder view
> and
> also noticed that Lancelot was gone. At present I still cannot login
> without going into failsafe mode. Maybe I’ll update to 4.2.4 today.
I didn’t intend for this to become a support thread, apologies to the
moderators,
Try disabeling all repos except the KDE 4.2. Then do a unconditional upgrade under ‘Repositories’. This should bring you up to KDE 4.2.4. I found I had a few packages still in KDE 4.2.1 until I did this. It sorted some issues for me. They were not big ones but still issues ;).
I now only have KDE 4.2, update, nvidia, packman, OSS and non-OSS enabled so it will hopefully stay this stable for me.
Hope it helps.
> Try disabeling all repos except the KDE 4.2. Then do a unconditional
> upgrade under ‘Repositories’. This should bring you up to KDE 4.2.4. I
> found I had a few packages still in KDE 4.2.1 until I did this. It
> sorted some issues for me. They were not big ones but still issues ;).
>
> I now only have KDE 4.2, update, nvidia, packman, OSS and non-OSS
> enabled so it will hopefully stay this stable for me.
>
> Hope it helps.
Thanks, I had just finished doing this when I read your post.
Will have to wait and see now. If it’ll just stop dumping my mouse click
I’ll be happy.