The Debian KDE Maintainers recently released inofficial Backports of KDE4.1 for Debian Lenny for those who didn’t wan’t to use experimental packages or wait for lenny to become stable. I was waiting for this packages for a long time. Since I’ve used KDE 4.0 at work I did want to use it at home, too. But I did not want to break my system more than absolutly necessary and I didn’t like some of the shortcoming of KDE 4.0, so I had to wait. The 4.1 release looked very promising to me and so I did decide to give it a try. Many people told me not to use KDE 4.1 but I did really like KDE 4 since my first contact. Unfortunately there are known issues with KDE 4.1 and the proprietary Nvidia drivers which I use and the compositing features of KWin only work with TwinView and not Xinerama, so I did prepare myself to some hurdles. I want to give a short report of my experiences on KDE 4.1 on Debian GNU/Linux lenny.
Basically I did follow the steps described on the Backports page:
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Recently I bought the Asus Maximus Formula Mainboard in replacement for my old and unstable Abit AX8. I did this to get rid of the endless trouble a VIA Chipset can bring you. I did have lots of trouble with the VIA Chipset on the AX8. The board itself actually wasn’t so bad, but the chipset definetly is. The most remarkable problem was that my SATA2 hard drives weren’t recognized when connected to the board. I had to limit them to SATA1 for the board to recognize them. This shouldn’t be a problem in theory since SATA1 can transfer about 150MB/s, but after replacing the board I realized that I did waste a lot of performance on the old board. The hard drives perform much better on the new board. The Maximus Formula seems to be targeted at Gamers, but the board has proven to be rock-solid until now. You get lots of overclocking options but for the time being I won’t touch them. System stability is more important to me than raw speed and I don’t play games that often. Running Linux on the board is super easy. Actually it is more easy than running Windows Vista! Before you ask: I use Vista only for playing games that won’t run on Linux.
Nachdem ich mein Problem mit Eclipse lösen konnte, bin ich beim starten von Google Earth auf ein neues interessantes Problem gestoßen. Die installierte Version wollte erstmal gar nicht starten. Na gut, schnell die aktuelle Version runtergeladen (4.3) und installiert. Die ist dann auch gestartet aber die Erde wurde nicht angezeigt. Stattdessen ein “Fehlercode: 29″. In den Hilfeseiten von Google findet man dazu im Moment nichts, aber im Ubunutusersforum. Dort gab es auch die Lösung: Den 32-bit DNS-Resolver installieren.
aptitude install lib32nss-mdns
Nach der Migration meines Systems von 32-bit auf einen 64-bit Kernel kam es beim Starten von Eclipse zu einer komischen Fehlermeldung:
libgtk2.0-0: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
Der Grund war einfach, dass ich eine 32-bit Version von Eclipse (SWT) hatte und die natürlich die entsprechenden Libraries nicht gefunden hat. Die Lösung habe ich in einem Debian Bugreport gefunden.
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