Jaunty kdm not handling Xorg crashing during logout well

[Ric Moore]

On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 17:30 +0800, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
> >>> Relating to your other mail, I guess your kde feeling will 
> >>> improve massively from another graphics board, as well.
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> 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.
> >>     
> >
> > I'd blame the hardware. As a previous poster wrote, you could jam an old
> > nVidia 5200 card with 128 megs of vram for $10. Or get one donated. I
> > too work for a Non-Profit who pays for my hardware ...when they can. I'm
> > running an old 5500 and nothing major happening wrong with KDE4. If you
> > had a basis for feeling cheated, so would we all. But no one is
> > reporting that. We might get "chargined" when the software takes over
> > the idiot-in-the-chair's position and doing stuff unexpected. :) Ric
> >
> >
> >   
> 
> Well...I was expecting KDE4 to be faster than GNOME on the same 
> hardware. Especially since the latter depends on a set of libraries that 
> a lot of people say is bloated.

Yeah, I hear that. I hope you find something workable for your video set
up. Vesa may be a good choice for now. Ric