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On Freitag 13 Februar 2009, András, Csányi - Sayusi Ando wrote: |
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> Hi all! |
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> After few weeks suffer (under XP) I came back and I have few questions! |
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> I installed kde-4.2 and this is love at first sight! |
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> But - there is always an 'but'... ;) - k3b is depends on |
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> kdelibs-3.5.x. Yesterday I wanted to update my system and kdelibs-4.x |
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> and kdelibs-3.5.x are blocked package. |
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> I installed kde-4.2 with kdeprefix USE flag. |
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install k3b-9999 from the kde-testing overlay. It depends on kde 4.X |
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> Other hand the Openoffice with kde flag has dependency to kdelibs-3.5.x. |
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well, what do you get from ooo with kde useflag? Isn#t it just an artwork |
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flag? |
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> Other thing is powerdevil. This is an laptop (Dell Latitude e6400) and |
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> with cpufrequtils I can manipulate (speedstep) the processors but |
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> under KDE-4 I can't. I can't turn off one processor. I think |
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> powerdevil can't communicate with something. The error message is |
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> suggested few things and I did install these libs (libXext and one |
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> more, I'm under Xp and I can't view) |
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> Under XP I can choose many profile. With the hardest the laptop can |
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> work almost 4 hours with batterys. Under Linux on 800Mhz (2 |
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> processors) the powertop say ~2.5 hours. I think this is more than big |
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> difference. |
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you can create power profiles in the systemsettings app. |
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But linux is known not to be as good as windows xp when it comes to power |
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savings. |
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> I thought that I downgrade the system to kde-3.5 and I will make an |
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> usable environment with compiz to work. With the kdeprefix use flag I |
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> can manage kde-4.x tree too. |
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compiz and usable are mutual exclusive. |
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> So there are my problems and I think I can manage (sometimes this time |
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> is wasted time, but I like Iron Maiden very much ;) ). But I need |
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> yours experience and suggestions, what do you do If you are in my |
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> position? |
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there is no reason to 'downgrade' to kde 3.5. Openoffice is usable without |
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kde-flag - in kde. k3b is available for kde 4.2 (or use tkdvd which is ugly |
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bug can do all the stuff you need most of the time). |
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> Thank you for help and I'm sorry my english. I feel dizzy, I have flu. |
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not a good time to tinker with your system ;) |