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kamahl

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Registered: 2007-09-16

Posts: 60

plasma doesn't work in KDE 4.2

So I installed the great new shiny KDE 4.2 from kdemod.

But it doesn't work at all.

When kde starts, plasma will remain blank (the process exists, but it shows nothing). I tried to search the web, I found that it might be caused by old nVidia drivers (my card is: GeForce 9600 GSO), so I installed 180.27, but it didn't help. I am now using fluxbox, but I'd really love my fav kde and I really didn't find anymore useful information on web.

My "Desktop":

Anyone know solution to this?

scarecrow

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From: Greece

Registered: 2004-11-18

Posts: 715

Re: plasma doesn't work in KDE 4.2

nvidia videocard, eh? Try disabling the composite nvidia driver options from your xorg config file before logging to KDE4.
I also had some issues on my desktop with it (nvidia 7600GS videocard), but on my laptop (nvidia chipset and videocard) it loaded OK.
However, KDE 4.2 is so crappy, that I'd suggest waiting for KDE 4.3 instead of disabling your videocard's composite abilities...
It's rather a fault of the nvidia driver than KDE's, but since KDE 4.2 is a major dissapointment, I'd rather not try finding an appropriate cure...

Last edited by scarecrow (2009-01-29 17:59:56)

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kamahl

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Registered: 2007-09-16

Posts: 60

Re: plasma doesn't work in KDE 4.2

Thanks for reply. But disabling composite won't make plasma to run properly - still the same problem. (I've been using 4.1 with great composite performance with this card).

I forgot to mention - a friend of mine recommended me to delete kde4.1 plasma config, or to remove whole kde4.1 config. Didn't help as well.

zyghom

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From: Poland/currently Africa

Registered: 2006-05-11

Posts: 432

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Re: plasma doesn't work in KDE 4.2

However, KDE 4.2 is so crappy, that I'd suggest waiting for KDE 4.3

I don't agree

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whompus

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From: Durham. UK

Registered: 2005-08-09

Posts: 256

Re: plasma doesn't work in KDE 4.2

Just updated a laptop today from 4.1.3 to 4.2 and had a similar issue with plasma but using an intel card. I left the .kde4 folder as it was, disabled composite in xorg.conf, uninstalled then reinstalled kdemod and after booting into kde re-enabled composite and now everything is ok.

eric

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From: under heaven

Registered: 2004-02-11

Posts: 117

Re: plasma doesn't work in KDE 4.2

I've had issues with plasma as well. They disappeared after deleting "~/.kde4/share/config/plasma*rc". The plasma in kde-4.2 can't get along very well with plasma configfiles of previous versions. Maybe it's better to rename those files instead of deleting them... just in case.

kamahl

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Registered: 2007-09-16

Posts: 60

Re: plasma doesn't work in KDE 4.2

Just updated a laptop today from 4.1.3 to 4.2 and had a similar issue with plasma but using an intel card. I left the .kde4 folder as it was, disabled composite in xorg.conf, uninstalled then reinstalled kdemod and after booting into kde re-enabled composite and now everything is ok.

Huh, this worked. I do not understand why, but thanks anyway!