Hi all- Just some notes on a recent upgrade from stable to testing on a box with the Ivan Moore II KDE packages. Since the packages are not a part of the official Potato version, I was unsure of how the upgrade would proceed.
------------------------------------------------------- The machine is a Dell Inspiron 5000 notebook with the 1400x1040 display. As expected, apt-get dist-upgrade has to be run several times. All the KDE packages are held back the first time. After a clean run through dist-upgrade, I tried to launch kdm. This failed because kdm was gone. Okay, install kdm. This also installs kdebase although I thought it was already there. But still no luck starting the kdm . Turns out XFree86 is still in version 3 and my weird configuration ( for the Dell display ) has been replaced with a default one. For some reason, offhandedly, I run dist-upgrade again. XFree86 version 4 starts coming down. I choose the new XFree86 server but decline to setup since my resolution is not supported by the package install scripts. I run XFree86 -configure and get a new configuration file. All video and LCD setup is magically generated for my weird hardware (that is really cool). But upon testing the server, mouse is frozen. After some playing, I discover that I have to remove gpm (bummer, it used to work with X no problem, I just used /dev/gpmdata for my mouse device) AND I have to specify the PS/2 protocol (-configure set it up for a serial device). I resolve to figure out the gpm problem someday. OK, X server works. I replace X config file, make sure Xserver and /etc/X11/X are pointing to the right place (Q: are both necessary? Why do we list the server in Xserver AND link X to it?) and start kdm. Bingo. Observation: KDE is still version 2.1 (I thought it would be 2.2), but everything seems much faster. Observation: The vertical bars on the panel that seperate the applets are now vertical rows of dots. I don't think that's right. The vertical bars are still there on application tool panels. -------------------------------------------------
