Jaunty kdm not handling Xorg crashing during logout well

[Eberhard Roloff]

Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
> Eberhard Roloff wrote:
>> Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
>>   
>>> Eberhard Roloff wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>>>> Continuation of the openchrome driver crashing Xorg saga
>>>>>
>>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-openchrome/+bug/446316
>>>>>
>>>>> Looks like I will have to switch over to gdm and GNOME, since it is more 
>>>>> responsive (zero desktop effects/no compiz enabled in KDE) than KDE, 
>>>>> while I am at it so that I do not have an embarrassing Linux desktop for 
>>>>> show.
>>>>>
>>>>>     
>>>>>         
>>>> this is the beauty of Linux,
>>>> if gdm/gnome suits you better, there is no one stopping you 
>>>> from using it.
>>>>
>>>> Btw. on a multiuser desktop machine (you wrote this in the 
>>>> bugreport), do you really need to work with an 
>>>> via/openchrome chipset/motherboard?
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>> Yes. Donated hardware. Athlon XP too.
>>>
>>>     
>> ok, then I understand. When the hardware has been donated,
>> you are lucky. If it is not mini/micro/whatever small via 
>> hardware, maybe you can buy an elcheapo nvidia card, also 
>> buying secondhand will do greatly.
>>   
> :-D. In Hong Kong, where we THROW good working stuff away and replace 
> with new fancy stuff (oh, and we never use the fancy stuff too) as a 
> matter of course?

;-))
> 
> Maybe people here have stopped that with the financial crises of late 
> but I'd have to be very lucky to find an AGP board.
>> Relating to your other mail, I guess your kde feeling will 
>> improve massively from another graphics board, as well.
Well, there must be ways to obtain one, maybe via ebay?

>>
>>   
> Man, I was hearing all these stories about how KDE4 had a smaller 
> footprint than GNOME and KDE3 and also how good qt4 was and BANG! KDE4 
> is slow and kiosktool, the only group based desktop management tool 
> there is on Linux, had not been ported.
> 
> 
> Please forgive me if I feel kind of cheated.
> 
No need for excuses. While starting KDE4 development has 
been the right thing to do, the way it was introduced has 
been the failure of the century, at least up to now, imho.;-(

Eberhard