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Ray Smith wrote:
A freind of mine downloaded the rpms to upgrade to kde3 on mandrake 8.2 and I installed today. If I log in as a normal user using KDM I KDE3 starts up but logging in as root starts up kde2. KDE 3 dosn't appear in the menu but shutting down X altogether & then typing KDE3 as a command will start the new version ok. In either case the soundserver won't start up. I get a message that says kde fails to autodetect the sounddevice and do will disable the soundserver & use a null device. I can still use any program that uses sound though. Even kde programs such as kmidi. The odd thing is though that kde2 is still present on the system & when that starts up the sounserver starts up no problems at all. In kde3 the soundserver is set to autodetect. I've tried disabling it & then restarting it but still the same error message. Anyone else had any other problems upgrading or got any ideas. Ray Smith --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.333 / Virus Database: 187 - Release Date: 08/03/02 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.
I can't offer much help here but this may be similar to a problem I had with two different versions of gs. It seems that when you are root the PATH variable is searched in a different order. I'm sorry I can't really help with the sound server. Just guessing, it may be that the KDE2's sound server is being executed instead of KDE3's sound server. You probably have both KDE2 and KDE3 installed becuase rpm treats them as seperate packages and not as upgrades. This is the same with Qt and Qt2. -- Andrew Rogers http://www.rogerstech.co.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.