Looks like upgrading my RAM would be the most reasonable thing to do. However, from what you all have said, I think that I will not fiddle around with any of the 4.x versions of KDE - at least not on that system. The last one that I had running was
3.5 which worked fine for my needs, and I will most likely revert to it.
I can not give you any specifics about my graphics card right here as I am writing this post from another machine.
The reason why I mentioned the diskspace was simply because I do not have a whole lot of it at my disposal. My computer is sharing two operating systems, one of which happens to be FreeBSD. I allocated 12 GB out of my total of 28 GB to FreeBSD which is more that enough for the operating system itself. But considering that Xorg in its entirety consumes about 4 GB already, adding another 2 or so GB for KDE would leave me relatively little room for other things.
Thanks again for your opinions
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 12:01 AM, Chuck Burns <break19@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 01/07/12 16:15, Duncan wrote:"KMS only" Sorry, but no. Nvidia supports FreeBSD. If you have an nvidia card, you can easily have these graphics and full 3d acceleration.
_ posted on Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:35:39 +0100 as excerpted:
I'm considering installing the KDE 4.7.4 version on my FreeBSD 8.2
system,
and I'd like to ask the community about the system requirements to make
it run:
The base information for my system looks like this:
Intel P4 1.8 Ghz CPU 512 MB of RAM Intel Onboard Graphics Chip
Can anybody on this list give me any pointers as to the performance of
KDE under the above hardware setup? Moreover, how much diskspace will
KDE take?
Nobody else has mentioned the FBSD angle. I know kde still runs on FBSD,
but don't know much else about that angle either except that as I'm
following a couple xorg lists as well, I know that for newer systems at
least, some of the graphics accel stuff works best with KMS, kernel
modesetting, which is AFAIK Linux-only at this point. So it may be that
the older graphics isn't such a problem in this regard after all, since
you'd have other problems with newer graphics.
I run KDE 4.7.3, on FreeBSD 9-stable, but I wouldn't dare do it with a measly half a gig of ram. My box has 8G of ram.
But with an Intel gpu, you're not likely to have much luck with any effects, unless you want to use the EXTREMELY experimental intel-only KMS stuff that is being worked on. Here: http://wiki.freebsd.org/Intel_GPU
But the ram is a limiting factor. Provided you do not enable nepomuk, you -might- fare well.. but I still wouldn't want be to using that machine...
--
Chuck Burns
The Southern Libertarian
http://www.thesouthernlibertarian.com/
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