KDE 4.2 Xserver 7.4~5 and I'm feeling good

[pvaneynd]

I installed the 4.2 KDE from experimental and ... wow. Nicer. Faster. Less display corruption. All in all good.

shame about the crash when I unplug my external display

I can't wait for the 'testing' release :-)

Congratualtions to the KDE and debian-KDE people!

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I'm using too

[(Anonymous)]

I'm using KDE 4.2, Xserver 7.4~5 and nouveau (from git, with Gallium), and yes, It rocks!

A (K)ubuntu user?

[(Anonymous)]

As you were talking about display corruption, are you by any chance a (K)ubuntu user?

If so, then the garbage is caused by a Ubuntu (+ Fedora) patch. Read this bug report for more details:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/254468

Ubuntu seems to prefer performance over correctness.

Re: A (K)ubuntu user?

[pvaneynd]

No a Debian unstable/experimental with the latest xf86-video-ati driver.

I kept getting display corruption a bit everywhere: near the mouse, near krunner, etc.

Now it is gone.

Re: A (K)ubuntu user?

[(Anonymous)]

Are you using the driver from experimental ?

Re: A (K)ubuntu user?

[pvaneynd]

X from experimental, ati driver from git (not HEAD because that breaks the outputs).

Re: A (K)ubuntu user?

[pvaneynd]

Checking the KDE forum thread the corruption does look similar to the non-mouse corruption I was seeing...

Possibly Debian also included that patch.

xorg 7.4~5

[(Anonymous)]

How was it possible for you to install xorg 7.4~5? When I look at the dependencies then I see that xserver-xorg-input-wacom 0.8.1.6-1+ provides xserver-xorg-input-2.1 and xserver-xorg-input-wacom 0.8.1.6-1 provides xserver-xorg-input-2. Both conflicts with xserver-xorg-core 2:1.5.99.901-2. It is nearly the same with all video drivers which provide xserver-xorg-video-4 which conflicts with xserver-xorg-core. Seems that the xorg packages are more or less broken on debian experimental (amd64)

Re: xorg 7.4~5

[pvaneynd]

0/pvaneynd@sharrow:~ :) $ dpkg -l *xorg* | grep '^ii'
ii xorg 1:7.3+18 X.Org X Window System
ii xorg-docs 1:1.4-4 Miscellaneous documentation for the X.Org so
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.4~5 the X.Org X server
ii xserver-xorg-core 2:1.5.99.901-2 Xorg X server - core server
ii xserver-xorg-core-dbg 2:1.5.99.901-2 Xorg - the X.Org X server (debugging symbols
ii xserver-xorg-dev 2:1.5.99.901-2 Xorg X server - development files
ii xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.1.1-1 X.Org X server -- evdev input driver
ii xserver-xorg-input-kbd 1:1.3.2-2 X.Org X server -- keyboard input driver
ii xserver-xorg-input-mouse 1:1.4.0-1 X.Org X server -- mouse input driver
ii xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 0.99.3-3 Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org server
ii xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:6.10.0-2 X.Org X server -- ATI Radeon display driver
ii xserver-xorg-video-vesa 1:2.1.0-1 X.Org X server -- VESA display driver

on 386....

crash on unplugging an external display

[mgedmin.livejournal.com]

I often get a crash (assertion failure, actually) in Mesa when I run xrandr --auto after unplugging my external display. It's a bit annoying.