(SOLVED!)problems with pclinux kde4 2010

[T6]

in the other installation , minime if i remember correctly there wasn't any held packages but still i had the same problem, for some reason the ati driver seems to be incapable of load dri and do transparency on kde4 properly

the thing is that i can do glxgears and gives the same values i used to get in kde3 and kde4

the good thing is that jdownloader is working perfectly again in kde4  

for some reason konsole takes more time to load compared to kde 4.3.4 and still can't get transparecy

the weird thing is that kde4 desktop effects work, terribly slow but works, of course, i disabled them immediately, no matter how i try to load compiz, manually or from 3d desktop menu in pcc, i remember i had a similar problem with pclinux 2007 and 2009.1 but i fixed it quickly with the exa/xaa setting but the driver change seems to be enough to make it impossible now

the weird thing is that in 2009.1 updated the same driver(it was using the radeon 9250 and earlier)with the same settings was perfectly stable and gave me compiz and transparency, also worked with kde4 desktop effects

"do you follow pclinuxos twitter/identi.ca channel?"

i remember the uploading the you know what to you know where message but i don't follow twitter and don't have the address

following this address

http://identi.ca/pclinuxos

it reports that a wrong kernel is loaded, there is 6 available, perhaps i should load another

i am not sure if i need to reinstall system, i hope not because i don't have time, if that is the case i will have to abandon pclinux for some time untill i find the time to play with it, i will try to load another kernel

thanks for your help muungwana

[MaddogF16]

Twitter link is on the home page or go to twitter.com and search for iluvpclinuxos.

[muungwana]

u can always bookmark it and check it like any other webpage : http://twitter.com/iluvpclinuxos

[T6]

"Twitter link is on the home page or go to twitter.com and search for iluvpclinuxos."

thank you, i never used twitter and didn't believed it was important in pclinux, the forum itself should be enough but this new resource seems to be vital for many users, will try to check it more often

"u can always bookmark it and check it like any other webpage : http://twitter.com/iluvpclinuxos"

yes, i should bookmark it but i was doing some maintenance to firefox an i had to restore a old bookmarks.html i had, i wiped most of the pclinux stuff

after i am in a more stable situation i won't do more editions to that bookmark file, a little messy backup, i did a complete backup of 50 gbs on a ntfs partition, 20 on another hard disk and set a more comfortable partition for pclinux

this days here can be described as a big disorder 

i just realized that i can't install the new kernel atm because openoffice is being installed 

10 more minutes, not sure wich one, won't use a pae, i'm only at 1280 mbs and the a64, not sure if it helps this 64 bit semprom

can you guys recommend me one?

currently on synaptic it is available 2.6.33.11 and 2.6.33.2 in i686, pae, bfs and a64 flavors

[MaddogF16]

If things worked better before I'd tend to lean towards the i686 kernel for your situation. JMHO

[T6]

i decided to try the a64 kernel, no difference, still don't have compiz or transparency but system works faster

fortunately problems now is problem

only 3d and transparency, usually both are related

[T6]

i was thinking on what you said about i686 and the kernels available and the a64 just takes advantage of those functions present in my cpu so i decided to boot from it and the machine is FAST with it

around 5-10 seconds with it compared with the other

my system boots to kde4 desktop in 1 minute 3 seconds!!!!

from pclinux 2009.1 updated to the latest kde4 i had a boot speed improvement of 33 seconds!!!! 

i don't know if it is the new versions of everything, the new kernel a64 or the ext4 but the machine is working really really fast,worth to try the a64 krnel if you have a amd cpu that supports it

after configuring again my video card and the ed desktop menu in pcc system is working perfectly including compiz fusion, in fact it boots so fast that i couldn't determine it was loaded until i used the desktop cube

thanks for your help and patience and  MaddogF16 and muungwana 

your excellent suggestions and knowledge you showed us how to help a user that required help desperately 

i'm having another problem but it fits in compiz section of the forum so this is solved, thanks again

i was thinking and the name i put to my previous post about minime was very appropriate, impatience... not a good friend 

[Andy Axnot]

T6,

I'm glad you got some help and resolved your problem.

But don't take every comment directed to you seriously.  Sometimes people are just kidding with you, even if it's not a thread in the Sandbox.   Give people the benefit of the doubt.   

Andy

[T6]

"But don't take every comment directed to you seriously. Sometimes people are just kidding with you, even if it's not a thread in the Sandbox.   Give people the benefit of the doubt"

no, i can't

lately i had received many complains, from the avatar i use(each one i use finds a hater), pictures and comments, topics i post and recently questions i answer in places different to sandbox that some users interpret as a invitation to make fun of everything and everyone

a direct violation of the forum rules


that makes look bad the forum and certainly makes you wonder about many things


many users see what i post as a continuous joke, others as a continuos offense because there is people that can't differentiate between a joke or a funny comment from the truth or the reality

some of those added me to the ignore list, one of them i suspect didn't liked my avatar

not always you want to give that impression(that everything is a joke) and certainly when you ask for help you don't expect this kind of answers

nobody is perfect, that includes me but constantly i feel the pressure of each mistake i do but i don't see change in others

[djohnston]

definitively e17 is a true gem, it is becoming very fast one of the best desktop environments existing, it is a shame i only played with it for a couple of minutes now and then

Yeah, e17 is shiny and pretty, and uses less resources for its bling-factor. But it has only recently gone "beta" after many years. And you will experience the occasional window manager crash if you do any seriously heavy computing. Recovery is usually possible. But e17 is not a complete desktop in and of itself. It is usually run  on top of Openbox or LXDE. In its favor, the e17 window manager can be completely restarted in a second or two. Next time you have e17 running, try pressing the Ctrl-Alt-End key combination.

[T6]

thanks for your tips, very appreciated but in the times i had using it it worked absurdly fast, stable and responsible

it has gave me the best impression a desktop can give to a new user

i only had one problem, i couldn't find a way to change the color of the background when a image doesn't cover the whole screen when used as a wallpaper

[djohnston]

thanks for your tips, very appreciated but in the times i had using it it worked absurdly fast, stable and responsible

it has gave me the best impression a desktop can give to a new user

It is absurdly fast. What I did not point out is if you restart the e17 window manager, which takes a couple of seconds at the most, your tasks will keep running. I run folding at home all the time, and when e17 occasionally crashes, I restart it. No matter what programs were running, they keep running. I haven't lost anything yet. Sort of like restarting Firefox after installing an addon.

i only had one problem, i couldn't find a way to change the color of the background when a image doesn't cover the whole screen when used as a wallpaper

I'm not sure about that, but you can "stretch" the image to cover.

[T6]

no, the girl(my wallpaper) looks weird in that condition