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link97381 · Post by **link97381** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 4:28 pm

Here are some screenshots of it running on my computer. http://webpages.charter.net/link97381/snapshot2.png and
http://webpages.charter.net/link97381/snapshot3.png

zerojay · Post by **zerojay** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:38 pm

I'm in the middle of giving the newest patch another shot. I had plain 3.3.1 emerged with what I thought were conservative CFLAGS, but I was getting some odd behavior. The patched versions are almost done.

I'd like to see more patches put into KDE, but I haven't a clue what other patches there are out there. If you can collect a list, I'm sure you could get a good vote going on for them.

joshualk · Post by **joshualk** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 3:20 am

For some reason, the ebuilds didn't work for me. I had to manually patch the files. When I then compiled KDE, it worked just fine!

Thanks a lot!

Joshua K.

zerojay · Post by **zerojay** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 5:45 am

Version 0.4.0 is out with a few bugfixes and a sidebar improvement. And I just got done compiling 0.3.4. Oh well.

taskara · Post by **taskara** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 7:49 am

version 0.4.0 is out, see initial post.

edit: grab version 0.4.0-2, as I didn't realise the patch had changed from -p1 to -p0

it should patch now!

taskara · Post by **taskara** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 11:36 am

screenshots added

lolowen · Post by **lolowen** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 4:55 pm

does it matter what section of xorg i add the render option? This looks good i jus getting some lag from my pci gf4mx440

GentooBox · Post by **GentooBox** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 8:42 pm

yeah you can apply it to 3.3.1 Smile

i created some ebuild with several other kde 3.3.1 improvement patches:

http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=16962

you can get the ebuilds here:

http://phoennixx.ath.cx/kde-patches-ebuilds.tgz

i called it

kdebase-3.3.1-r1
kdelibs-3.3.1-r1
kdeartwork-3.3.1-r1
qt-3.3.3-r2

the only thing you have to do is to ebuild ... digest the files Smile

it works fine for me Wink

from http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php? ... c&start=25

do we have 2 people doing the same work ?

taskara · Post by **taskara** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 10:31 pm

yes we do I guess, although you can see my ebuilds came first

I haven't included the xcompmgr integration patch yet though, but thinking about it.

it has been discussed in this thread before - I quote from the site

xcompmgr is still experimental - it crashes from time to time... shit

so I asked if people still wanted it, but have left it out thus far seeing as the project page say it is buggy.

however, if people want it I'll include it

-c

link97381 · Post by **link97381** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 11:31 pm

welshboy89 wrote:does it matter what section of xorg i add the render option? This looks good i jus getting some lag from my pci gf4mx440

You would put it in in the Device section of you graphics card....here is mine for an example

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Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "SWcursor"            # [<bool>]
        Option     "HWcursor" "1"            # [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoAccel"             # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ShadowFB"            # [<bool>]
        #Option     "UseFBDev"            # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Rotate"             	# [<str>]
        #Option     "VideoKey"           	# <i>
        #Option     "FlatPanel"          	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "FPDither"            # [<bool>]
        #Option     "CrtcNumber"          # <i>
 Option "RenderAccel" "1"
 Option "NoLogo" "1"                       # Turn off logo display 
 Option "CursorShadow" "true"              # Shadowed mouse cursor 
 Option "CursorShadowAlpha" "64" 
 Option "CursorShadowXOffset" "4" 
 Option "CursorShadowYOffset" "2" 
 

 Identifier  "Card0"
 Driver      "nvidia"
 VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
 BoardName   "NV25 [GeForce4 Ti 4200]"
 BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection

balinares · Post by **balinares** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 3:24 am

Hello,

I am sorry to report that the rubberband works horribly.
Here are screenshots of the problem:

http://rencade.raphit.net/~sundance/RubberBandBug1.png
http://rencade.raphit.net/~sundance/RubberBandBug2.png

It looks like the rubberband is not erased between two successive positions of the mouse.
This seems to be the same problem jmercer was having.

Any idea what could be up?

Thanks!

taskara · Post by **taskara** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:13 am

balinares wrote:Hello,

I am sorry to report that the rubberband works horribly.
Here are screenshots of the problem:

http://rencade.raphit.net/~sundance/RubberBandBug1.png
http://rencade.raphit.net/~sundance/RubberBandBug2.png

It looks like the rubberband is not erased between two successive positions of the mouse.
This seems to be the same problem jmercer was having.

Any idea what could be up?

Thanks!

Hey,

did you re-build all the packages neccessary?

and have you added

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Option "RenderAccel" "1"

to your xorg.conf?

balinares · Post by **balinares** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 1:33 pm

taskara wrote:Hey,

did you re-build all the packages neccessary?

A number of times.
I've tried yet another time last night with the latest version.

The compilation failed.
The 'library not found' bug in uic still exists. It seems you forgot to ship the files 45qt3 and 50qtdir3 for x11-libs/qt in your Portage overlay.

and have you added
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Option "RenderAccel" "1"
to your xorg.conf?

Yes. It shouldn't make a difference with this bug, though. RenderAccel enables hardware-accelerated XRender primitives. But the primitives work the same when rendered in software (or they should, at least!); they're just much slower. Additionally, not all drivers support hardware acceleration for all primitives. I think the open source Radeon driver, for example, doesn't hardware-accelerate alpha channel operations (transparency and alike).

taskara · Post by **taskara** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 3:07 pm

hmm.. sorry, doesn't look like I'm gonna be much help - but I have included 45qt3 and 50qtdir3 now, thanks.

did u fix the qt library problem on your pc?

if not, try cat /etc/ld.so.conf and see if qt is there, ie:

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bash-2.05b# cat /etc/ld.so.conf
# ld.so.conf autogenerated by env-update; make all changes to
# contents of /etc/env.d directory
/usr/local/lib
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.3
/usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib
/usr/X11R6/lib
/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1/jre/lib/i386/
/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1/jre/lib/i386/native_threads/
/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1/jre/lib/i386/classic/
/usr/qt/3/lib
/usr/kde/3.3/lib

you should have /usr/qt/3/lib and /usr/kde/3.3/lib.

if not, then edit /etc/env.d/99kde-env, and add:

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LDPATH=/usr/kde/3.3/lib:/usr/qt/3/lib

then run env-update and check /etc/ld.so.conf again.

sorry about that

apart from that, I compiled kde with v0.4.0 ebuilds on my amd64 box, and using xorg nv driver had no re-draw problem..

GentooBox · Post by **GentooBox** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 5:08 pm

taskara wrote:yes we do I guess, although you can see my ebuilds came first

I haven't included the xcompmgr integration patch yet though, but thinking about it.

it has been discussed in this thread before - I quote from the site
xcompmgr is still experimental - it crashes from time to time... shit
so I asked if people still wanted it, but have left it out thus far seeing as the project page say it is buggy.

however, if people want it I'll include it

-c

You could try to make a test-ebuild with the xcompmgr patch included.
I would like to try it out.

Right now i'm compiling qt with the ebuld you made, hope it works

balinares · Post by **balinares** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 7:40 pm

taskara wrote:hmm.. sorry, doesn't look like I'm gonna be much help - but I have included 45qt3 and 50qtdir3 now, thanks.

did u fix the qt library problem on your pc?

Yep yep, no worries. I installed the missing file manually and rehashed env.d and ld.so.conf, no problem.

As for the rubberband problem, I'm done rererecompiling stuff using version 0.4.0-2 of the ebuild set, and it now works. It's a bit slow, due to the lack of hardware acceleration for XRender alpha operations in some drivers that I mentionned in my previous post. For those of us who don't have an NVidia card, do you think the code could be optimized a bit perchance? For example by redrawing only what has changed between two successive mouse positions, rather than the entire rubberband rectangle...

GentooBox · Post by **GentooBox** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 7:57 pm

It's done compiling and i have a running patched KDE.

But i'm not impressed, the drawing makes white lines in the box when moving the mouse.

is it the maturity of the code or is it the nvidia driver that lacks better aplha support ?

taskara · Post by **taskara** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 10:37 pm

balinares, let me build it on my p4 machine - it has a radeon card. I'll see if I get the same problems as you. In regards to the code, I guess it's best to talk to Andrunko from the kde-look site, as none of the code is mine

GentooBox, glad you got it all compiled, but sad it's not working. Have you tried with the nv driver? do you get the same problem? my amd64 box is using nv and nvidia drivers (the screenshots were taken on that box with nv driver). And I'm assuming you re-built qt and all the other packages, and editted render into your xorg.conf?

johnnyICON · Post by **johnnyICON** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 12:44 am

hmmm.... well i don't see a different at all...

????

Take a look for yourself...

SCREENSHOT

taskara · Post by **taskara** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 12:57 am

johnnyICON wrote:hmmm.... well i don't see a different at all...

????

Take a look for yourself...

SCREENSHOT

Hi johnnyICON,

could you try changing your theme to plastik for me? and see if that makes a difference. Also I'm assuming you RE-emerged qt, as well as all the other packages?

chris

johnnyICON · Post by **johnnyICON** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 6:32 am

yep, qt and everything

emerge -av qt kde

just to be sure. using the Plastik theme right now

Konqueror is still as shown in the previous screenshot

taskara · Post by **taskara** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 6:44 am

johnnyICON wrote:yep, qt and everything

emerge -av qt kde

just to be sure. using the Plastik theme right now

Konqueror is still as shown in the previous screenshot

was this a re-build over the top of an existing kde?

if so then you need to specify the packages individually, as per the instructions - otherwise it will just rebuild "kde" which is actually nothing.

try

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emerge -av qt kdelibs kdebase kdeartwork kdepim

(although you prob don't need to do qt again, so just kdelibs kdebase kdeartwork should do)
-c

taskara · Post by **taskara** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:16 am

taskara wrote:
balinares wrote:For those of us who don't have an NVidia card, do you think the code could be optimized a bit perchance? For example by redrawing only what has changed between two successive mouse positions, rather than the entire rubberband rectangle...
balinares, let me build it on my p4 machine - it has a radeon card. I'll see if I get the same problems as you. In regards to the code, I guess it's best to talk to Andrunko from the kde-look site, as none of the code is mine

Hey balinares, I re-emerged kde onto my p4 machine, which as a radeon card, and it works beautifully - both with the radeon xorg driver, and the ati fglrx driver. that's without adding renderaccel to xorg.conf.. so, not sure why you're running into issues

johnnyICON · Post by **johnnyICON** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 2:01 pm

taskara wrote:
johnnyICON wrote:yep, qt and everything

emerge -av qt kde

just to be sure. using the Plastik theme right now

Konqueror is still as shown in the previous screenshot
was this a re-build over the top of an existing kde?

if so then you need to specify the packages individually, as per the instructions - otherwise it will just rebuild "kde" which is actually nothing.

try
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emerge -av qt kdelibs kdebase kdeartwork kdepim
(although you prob don't need to do qt again, so just kdelibs kdebase kdeartwork should do)
-c

thanks ill try that

johnnyICON · Post by **johnnyICON** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 2:02 pm

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icon-linux root # emerge -av kdelibs kdeartwork kdebase

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies \
emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy "~kde-base/arts-1.3.1".

!!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct.
icon-linux root #

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