Hi everybody.
One of our customers here asked us for 3 PCs to be used under Linux
(evaluation as a web development platform). We provided them with
3 identical PCs with components we knew to work with Linux (most of
them being in of my own machine, which runs perfectly) and convinced
them to buy a Mandrake Linux PowerPack 6.
They insisted to install Linux themselves, thus, being unexperimented,
they picked up custom install with EVERY package selected and made
only 2 partitions (swap and /).
All 3 PCs are SUPPOSED to be installed this same way, but now, as soon
as they open an X session (be it KDE or other), 2 of them COMPLETELY
FREEZE from 5 seconds to 5-10 minutes later. Even the keyboard does
not respond to NumLock changes...
The funniest part: all 3 machines run Windows NT as well and do not have
any problem (which makes hard to think the problem is hardware related...).
I let you imagine them laughing at me who pretended they'd never see a
blue-screen feature anymore...
Any suggestion about this one?
I'm tempted to upgrade from "out of the box" Mandrake PowerPack 6 to
up to date RPMs but I fear it won't arrange anything, since:
1/ I'm not running all upgrades myself (still 2.2.9-19mdk for instance,
without any problem so far - vmware 1.02 is not supposed to work with
2.2.9.27mdk anyway, is it?) and
2/ one of these 3 clones is not experiencing these freezes.
Kind regards,
Yann
--
Yann-Erick Proy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quartz Informatique -- http://www.quartz.fr/ -- Annecy (F-74000)
La diversit� est source de richesse.
