On Wednesday 19 March 2003 06:07 am, Jan Ciger wrote:It wasn't a kde problem... a patch was applied to libqt3 between 12mdk and 13mdk that forces the use of AA fonts, which will fail if the Render extension is not present. There's a link in a previous message that points to a version of libqt3 without that patch and it works fine.
Jan,
This just occured to me.... When I had beta3 installed and just before RC1 came out qt3 and lib1t3 where upgraded. Let me see if my older disks are anywhere around... (slim chance) but just about that time my ability to launch kde3 died. And at that time I was using XFree 3.3.6 (the performace is better in an ATI Mobility chip than earlier versions of the 4 series XFree) Now if I go into 3.3.6 I get the exact same reaction from kde in normal mode as I do in Xnest or vnc with 4.3. The error it dies on is that DCOP server is failing. btw I can reproduce this error at any time by switching from one XFree version to the other. I found libqt3 8mdk and current is 13 let me downgrade and try it....
James
This just confirms it - XFree 3.3.6 didn't have Render yet, that came only with the 4.x series, that's why you have the problem.
Some other people here already confirmed, that the problem goes away, when you disable antialiasing in Qt and recompile it.
I guess, that the bug is in Qt's handling of antialiasing, it does not fall back to non-antialiased mode when Render is not available and crashes the application.
Jan
I'll ask again then. Should this be reported upstream? I didn't see anything about this in the KDE bugzilla. I did not check trolltech.
Scott
