I’ve just installed the KDE4.1 stable release via repository and I am experiencing some problems with display - it flickers about every few seconds. Sometimes its a whole screen, sometimes just a black stripe apears on 1/4 of screen. Is this a common problem or I am the one? I’m using opensuse 11 64 bit version.
I’ve read that there are some known issues with nvidia display driver, but its stated that its only with efficiency, can it be something with drivers?
Whats more - I can’t launch firefox. It appears on the bar for a split of second and disappears.
> Is it ok for unexp user like to to install kde4.2 from developer
> repository from the link above?
Only if you want to become experienced and don’t mind reinstalling
everything once you’ve totally trashed your system. Not that
it would, but it may be difficult to fix if it all goes wrong.
Oh, Ive just find a note on kde4 subpage on opensuse.
Note: Currently there are known problems with using the 1-click installation on 64-bit systems. Add the repositories and install/update the packages manually if you have a 64-bit system.
One click is just what I ve done
Ill try to install it once more - this time adding manualy. Maybe this will change something. I hope.
IMHO although KDE 4.1 is stable, it’s still under heavy development and there might be some serious issues like the stability one you are facing or the applications like Koffice 2 are still in beta. Issues can also occur by packaging bugs with KDE 4.1, but they can be swatted because of new updated packages in the repositories. It’s a matter of time. It looks very promising. I’m still using KDE 4.0.4 using the STABLE repositories. It’s somewhat conservative, but somewhat more stable.
You can also install Gnome 2.22 which is stable and production-ready. The same is valid for KDE 3.5.9. I like KDE 3.5.9 the most, because I am familiar with KDE 3.5.x.
If you want to be productive with Linux you are good off with Gnome 2.22 and/or KDE 3.5.9. Both environments have a huge group of stable applications. But: KDE 4.x is promising and the guys are working hard on it!
It’s not bad to use KDE 4.1 for evaluating the product and to discuss for the issues you are facing.
The reason for more desktops is to be able to work with the computer if one desktop (in this case KDE 4.1) is seriously broken.
So,
it seems there is no better way for now than calm down a bit and wait for some updates. Pitty that firefox doesn’t want to cooperate with 4.1, I dont have good relations with konqueror I hope this is a matter of days.
Luckily there is still Vista on second partition so I can somehow make out through this days I wanted to try linux and so far, its very ok.
Try running firefox from the console and see the errors
Or backup your bookmarks and delete or for safety rename your /home/air/.mozilla and logout/login
and retry running firefox again. Note not the home and air but only mozilla:)
Not that