What processors are in the machines? Mandrake is optimised
for Intel Pentium and may cause problems like this when run
on a Cyrix for example. Just a thought.
ttfn
nick@nexnix
At 07:36 13/07/99 +0000, you wrote:
>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
>
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