Sun.com: KDE 3.x on Sun Solaris

Tuesday, 30 December 2003  |  Jjuhl

Corey Liu has written an article about running KDE 3.1 on Solaris based workstations. He covers installing KDE, using KDE and running KDE apps under the CDE environment. The article is available over at Sun's website. Some screenshots are also included.

Comments:

Stefan Teleman's packages? - Anonymous Coward - 2003-12-29

And where are Stefan Teleman's packages? I've read about these recently somewhere... What's the benefit of these (other than their more recent versions)? Are they "better packaged" and have some "extra KDE flavor" with them? -- /methinks that it is a big waste of time to package these, if Sun does the job the same....

Re: Stefan Teleman's packages? - JC - 2003-12-29

<a href="ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.1.4/contrib/Solaris"> ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.1.4/contrib/Solaris</a>

Re: Stefan Teleman's packages? - Emiel Kollof - 2003-12-30

Well, Sun's versions tend to lag behind somewhat. I'd go with the KDE-packaged Solaris packages instead of Sun's. I think this article is just for promoting Sun's freeware site. And yes, Solaris runs KDE pretty nice. It certainly blows CDE away any day :)

Re: Stefan Teleman's packages? - Pedro Jurado Maqueda - 2003-12-30

Now, I'm using the Stefan Teleman's KDE 3.1.4 packages and it runs very well, only a few problem with dtlogin (it was not appear like an option ;-), resolve with nake-dtlogin from http://www.tiem.utk.edu/~peek/software/solaris/make-dtlogin/ and at least, I have a modern desktop in my Sun Sparc Ultra 5 like in my Linux box :-) Now, I'm trying to put the screen with 16 bits depth instead the default 8 bits. It's very dificult for a Solaris newbie like me ;-). I try with several howtos but anyone works. I'm still trying.

Re: Stefan Teleman's packages? - Paul Mitcheson - 2003-12-30

if you have an ultra 5 with on board graphics, it can only do 8 bit colour depth. You need to get a creator 3D or something to get decent colour depth. Cheers, Paul

Re: Stefan Teleman's packages? - Pedro Jurado Maqueda - 2003-12-30

Yes, I have an Ultra 5, with on board graphics?. I don't know, but xdpyinfo gives me this information: name of display: :0.0 version number: 11.0 vendor string: Sun Microsystems, Inc. vendor release number: 6410 maximum request size: 262140 bytes motion buffer size: 256 bitmap unit, bit order, padding: 32, MSBFirst, 32 image byte order: MSBFirst number of supported pixmap formats: 4 supported pixmap formats: depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32 depth 8, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32 depth 16, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32 depth 24, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32 The last four lines confusing me, but the important thing is that I have KDE in my Sun Sparc, so I'm happy enough. One last question, is kde-i18n-es package avaliable for Sparc? Thanks and sorry for the off-topic

Re: Stefan Teleman's packages? - Stefan Teleman - 2003-12-30

Hi! I believe kde-i18n-es is available in the kde-i18n huge package (please correct me if i'm wrong). I did not upload the whole kde-i18n because it's very big, and it wouldn't be useful to force someone to install the whole thing when they are probably only interested in a few languages anyway. It's available for download from the source download site(s). About the video card: try running: m64config -help (IIRC m64config is the video card config utility on Ultra 5). i am not sure if this works with an on-board video card, though. --Stefan

Great, it's working - Pedro Jurado Maqueda - 2003-12-31

Yes, with the command m64config -res 1024x768 -depth 24 works perfectly. Thank you very much :-)

Re: Great, it's working - Paul Mitcheson - 2003-12-31

Pedro, Sorry - I stand corrected. I was sure that the onboard graphics didn't have enough memory for 43 bit colour. Regards, Paul

Re: Great, it's working - Tony - 2004-01-03

The first generation of Ultra 5's could only do 8-bit. They then released versions with the PGX24, which is capable of 24-bit graphics, although only at 1152x900. Above that, it's 8-bit.