I would suspect the installation strongly, especially since it is an unknown
factor and may be the difference among the PCs. Reinstall, and upgrade the
kernel.
I have Cyrix and AMD processors with Venus, and I notice no particular
difference in performance from Intels. What it does sound like is that the
core dumper is eating all the resources because some X-related process is
crashing. An "almost correct" video card installation seems to be a likely
culprit.
Civileme
Yann-Erick Proy wrote:
>
>
> 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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