KDE 3.1

[Mathew Eis]

Hello Lee,

I can answer some, but not all of your questions...

There are no KDE 3.1 rpm's for YDL that I know of yet.

Although I haven't done it myself yet, the best way to build KDE 3.1 
seems to be to download konstruct, (http://konsole.kde.org/konstruct/) 
and all the KDE 3.1 sources. (downloads.kde.org), and then use 
konstruct to compile KDE.

Your machine should run with a non-smp kernel - As to how much speed 
you would lose, I would assume that you would really only notice a big 
hit when running multiple processes, since the kernel doesn't actually 
split a program between multiple CPU's.

After you have switched to the non-SMP kernel, provided that the kernel 
was built with MOL support, you should be able to rebuild the modules, 
and it should work fine.

Look on the YDL CD - there are several non-smp kernels as part of the 
distro. Assuming you use the same version kernel as your SMP, the 
headers should be the same, and you should only have to replace the 
kernel itself.

I believe that on newworld machines, the kernel is in the /boot 
directory, and is called vmlinux, possibly vmlinux_2.4, or something 
similar.

-Mathew

On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 08:25  AM, Lee Parry wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> Well I am what you might call a newbie. I installed YDL 2.3 on my Dual 
> G4
> 500mhz, and all is well (after a bit of bother with the old 17" Studio
> Display issue).
>
> What I was wondering is this... Under X (on my work machine) I've 
> installed
> KDE 3.1 via Fink. I was wondering if/how I would go about upgrading 
> the KDE
> version on my YDL machine at home?
>
> Preferably downloading all the needed files here at work first and 
> burning
> them to cd.
>
> Also, I'm using the SMP kernel at the moment, but it seems to mean 
> that I
> can't use MOL. I've tried recompiling the MOL Libraries, but no go. 
> Can I
> only use MOL with a non-smp kernel? And if so, 1. How much speed 
> difference
> will I see by giving up SMP? And 2. How do I change the kernel?
>
> I know these are probably stupid questions, but if someone could let me
> know, even if it is to just tell me I'm a moron.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Lee
>
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