[Qgis-developer] Ubuntu 8.10 and QGIS 0.11

[Carson Farmer]

Alex,
> Carson Farmer wrote:
>   
>> Alex,
>>     
>>> Well, it appears to be an issue on only some machines possibly related
>>> to video card drivers and X11 not necessarily qt.
>>>
>>> Both 0.11 and 1.0 kore work on a fresh Ubuntu install (tested in virtual
>>> box) so kde libs are not the solution.
>>>
>>> I have an nvidia gforce 8600gm, and tried both the nv and nvidia(177)
>>> drivers, haven't tried plain vga drivers yet.
>>>
>>> Carson: what video card do you have?
>>>   
>>>       
>> I have an intel card: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950
>>
>> I have had quite a bit of graphics card trouble with Intrepid, so I
>> actually ended up doing a complete reinstall of hardy... Until I hear
>> some very promising news saying these issues are resolved, I think I'm
>> going to stick with hardy... sorry I can't be of more help...
>>
>> Carson
>>     
>
> Carson,
>
> Can you just confirm that you were not having the gdal issue that was
> causing a segfault and that you were having an issue where the splash
> screen stuck at "Setting up GUI"
>   
Yes, I can confirm that the issue was with the splash screen stuck at 
"Setting up GUI"

Carson