Bug 485505

Summary:	KDE4 doesn't start on ppc
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Israel Miranda <programadorlinux>
Component:	kdebase-workspace	Assignee:	Than Ngo <than>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	10	CC:	arbiter, fedora, jreznik, kevin, ltinkl, peter, programadorlinux, rdieter, rs, smichal, than, tuxbrewr
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Hardware:	powerpc
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=209637
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Description Israel Miranda 2009-02-13 19:52:49 UTC

Description of problem:

After installing Fedora 10, KDE doesn't start.
It starts loading, a progress bar is shown but after some seconds the screen goes back to display manager.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
KDE 4 available in Fedora 10 DVD and KDE 4.2 in testing-updates


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Fedora 10 PPC on any ppc like computer
2. Install KDE4/ or choose KDE4 as desktop environment in installation process
3. Try to login in KDE4
  
Actual results:

Not possible to login in KDE4 with kwin window manager

Expected results:

Normal login without crash

Additional info:
Is possible to login in KDE4 with openbox window manager.
Just install openbox and choose KDE4/openbox in Display Manager.

Comment 1 Israel Miranda 2009-02-13 20:04:24 UTC

At first, was thought that this bug could be a variant of this one https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477095
But I tried the patch and it didn't work.

Comment 2 Kevin Kofler 2009-02-13 20:54:24 UTC

What graphics hardware/driver?

Comment 3 Israel Miranda 2009-02-14 10:40:39 UTC

Xorg identifies it as:
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "radeon"
    VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
    BoardName   "RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]"

But actually it is a 
ATI Mobility Radeon 9700:

  Chipset Model:	ATY,RV360M11
  Type:	Display
  Bus:	AGP
  VRAM (Total):	128 MB
  Vendor:	ATI (0x1002)

as detected by Mac Os System profiler.

I am using radeon driver.

Comment 4 Steven M. Parrish 2009-03-17 01:38:01 UTC

ping? is this another video driver issue that we can't resolve or something we need to look into.

Comment 5 Rex Dieter 2009-03-17 02:25:09 UTC

*** Bug 489542 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Rex Dieter 2009-03-17 02:25:37 UTC

looks legit, now that we have multiple folks seeing this.

Comment 7 Steven M. Parrish 2009-04-27 18:34:09 UTC

Thank you for the bug report.  This issue needs to be addressed by the upstream developers.  Please submit a report at http://bugs.kde.org. You are requested to add the bugzilla link here for tracking purposes. Please make sure the bug isn't already in the upstream bug tracker before filing it.

Comment 8 Michal Smolak 2009-06-23 16:15:35 UTC

not specific for ppc architecture

Comment 9 Rex Dieter 2009-06-23 16:51:28 UTC

Re comment #8 , 
Can you elaborate ?

Comment 10 Peter Hedlund 2009-06-27 20:02:19 UTC

I have followed this bug during the Fedora 10 cycle. Now, with an up-to-date Fedora 11 installation KDE works fine on my PowerBook G4.

My only wish right now is an update to Qt 4.5.2 since it fixes the inverted colors on icons.

Comment 11 Michal Smolak 2009-06-27 20:33:23 UTC

Kde works perfectly only with GDM.  When KDM is used it won´t start. I have Fedora 11 x86-64 on HP6910p notebook.

Comment 12 Kevin Kofler 2009-06-27 22:10:13 UTC

> My only wish right now is an update to Qt 4.5.2 since it fixes the inverted
> colors on icons.

We're working on that. It has already hit Rawhide, we'll be preparing builds for updates-testing shortly.

Comment 13 Peter Hedlund 2009-06-28 00:57:33 UTC

(In reply to comment #11)
> Kde works perfectly only with GDM.  When KDM is used it won´t start. I have
> Fedora 11 x86-64 on HP6910p notebook.  

I know this does not help you, but I use kdm successfully on one ppc and two x86_64 machines.

Comment 14 Rex Dieter 2009-06-28 01:00:45 UTC

Woo, OK, let's consider this general kde4/ppc problem solved.

Any new/different ppc-related issues (like comment #11), please open a new bug.