[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kde 4.5.0

[Marek Otahal]

On Wednesday 18 of August 2010 11:37:55 Ronald van Haren wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> 
wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:19:29 +0200, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net>
> > 
> > wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 11:06 +0200, Ronald van Haren wrote:
> >>> so far I've seen people reporting the following chipsets to be
> >>> affected, but there may be others
> >>> intel 910
> >>> intel 945
> >>> intel 965
> >>> ati 3450
> >> 
> >> Given the fact that AMD and Intel rule the IGP market, I would say yes.
> > 
> > We would still need an announcement as for those who upgrade from
> > previous versions this global configuration wont be effective. We should
> > add to the announcement that people could disable composite by editing
> > ~/.kde4/share/config/kwinrc (if they are no longer able to login)
> > 
> > --
> > Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre
> 
> you will be able to login, afaik this bug only shows up when changing
> stuff in system settings. disabling and enabling compositing with the
> global shortcut should be enough to get it working again.
> 
> Ronald

hello, 
for me, it kills desktop instantly, not only while fiddling with settings. 
Manually disabling compositing in kwinrc helps, "setting 
LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 in ~/.bash_profile" doesn't affect the bug. 
I'm using kde on i945. 
Thanks, marek

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Marek Otahal :o)