Subject: Re: (1.5.2) KDE / konqueror problems: ssl, cd player, printing
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Anne Bennett <anne@alcor.concordia.ca>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/23/2002 11:16:20
Nick Hudson <skrll@netbsd.org> writes:

>>>> Does anyone have KDE 2.2.2 (especially Konqueror) working properly 
>>>> under NetBSD 1.5.2?  Things that don't work for me:
>>>> 
>>>>   - https URLs in Konqueror: [...]
> 
> I've commited the fix to pkgsrc.

Terrific; I'll pick it up later today.  Which pkg is the fix in?  I'd
rather not replace all of pkgsrc if I don't need to.

>>>>   - I can't print; I get complaints that "kdeprintd" cannot be
>>>>     contacted, no matter whether I try printing with an external
>>>>     program (lpr -Pps), or with the "lpd" or "lpr" options.  (At 
>>>>     least I can print to a file).
>>> 
>>> This is related (I think) to a problem in the 1.5.2 toolchain. It 
>>> doesn't exist if you compile KDE with 1.5.3_ALPHA or -current.
>> 
>> Interesting.  I don't see myself upgrading the O/S again just yet (I
>> just came up to 1.5.2 from 1.4.1 last month!).  What do you mean by
>> "toolchain"?  Is the difference something I can patch in to 1.5.2?  Is
>> there *supposed* to be a "kdeprintd" daemon running?  I would have
>> hoped that when I selected "print through external program", all fancy
>> stuff would be bypassed...
> 
> I'm not sure what fixes the problem between 1.5.2 and 1.5.3_ALPHA maybe 
> you could test a few things for me?

I'm willing.  Send me the list of tests offline, and I'll get started
this evening.


Anne.
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Ms. Anne Bennett, Senior Analyst, IITS, Concordia University, Montreal H3G 1M8
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