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Apparently KDE 3.5.5 and the openGL portion of the nvidia-drivers |
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package don't get along too well. |
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I have a desktop and a laptop with nVidia cards. The desktop is an |
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AMD-64 machine, but Gentoo is built on it using the athlon-xp |
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architecture. The laptop is a Pentium 4. |
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On the AMD system, I had to select the xorg-x11 opengl libraries to get |
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kdesktop and kdeartwork-kscreensaver to build. Actually, at first, I |
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just set the use flags on kscreensaver and kdeartwork-kscreensaver to |
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-opengl, but then Control Center crashes every time I try to configure |
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the screensaver. There is no openGL use flag for kdesktop, so I had to |
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use the xorg-x11 (mesa, I assume) openGL libraries just to get it to |
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build. The error was unresolved symbols with names like |
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"_nv001215[something]" At the moment, I am unable to use the nVidia |
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openGL drivers that come with the nvidia-drivers package on the desktop. |
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On the laptop, after solving the problems with trying to build kde-3.5.5 |
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with gcc-4.1 (emerge -ae world), kdesktop crashes when KDE is started |
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from kdm. However, if I shut down xdm and run startx from the command |
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line, KDE starts up and I get a desktop, but a number of KDE |
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applications crash when I try to run them (KCrash can't seem to find |
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kdeinit). Once again, kscreensaver crashes unless I set the openGL |
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libraries to xorg-x11. |
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The only thing I have found by searching the web and the Gentoo forums |
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about this was the suggestion to use the mesa openGL libraries to build |
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kscreensaver. That reference suggested changing back to the nVidia |
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libraries after building, but I can't get kscreensaver to stay alive if |
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I do that. I would expect that to be the case anyway. |
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Any ideas? |
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