Re: [expert] Re: KDE 3.1.3 for 9.1 : go or no-go ?

[Brant Fitzsimmons]

Praedor Tempus wrote:

Don't know if it's "just me" but...I installed the the
Club 3.1.3 rpms on my desktop, and the texstar rpms on
my laptop.  The texstar KDE 3.1.3 system is gawd-awful
slow on my laptop, much slower than the original KDE
that came with 9.1, at least with regards to initial
startup.  Takes a LOOOONG time for my desktop to
finally come up (Thinkpad 1412, Celeron 366, 128MB
RAM). 

My desktop is lightening fast (Athlon XP2700+, 256MB
RAM, NVIDIA Ti4200) and of course KDE starts quickly,
at least as fast as the previous KDE version.  I HAVE
run into an intermittent problem, however, and I
assume it is a memory leak in the OpenGL screensavers.
I would set one of the nifty new OpenGL screensavers
to work and it would be fine for a while (a day, a
couple days) but then I would find the system locked
up hard.  No keyboard inputs possible and the system
would not accept a network connection so I could try
to kill X remotely.  I have had to hard reboot.  I
have since switched to just "blank screen" and have
thus far not had any problems...of course, I could go
home today and find my system locked up again but in
any case, none of this occurred until after I updated
my KDE.
praedor
--- Brant Fitzsimmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
 

Alex Fisher wrote:

   

Greg Meyer wrote:



     

On Saturday 06 September 2003 06:47 am, Stefano
       

Pogliani wrote:
   

  

       

Would it be ok now to migrate to KDE 3.1.3 for
         

MDK 9.1 or is it still
   

"unstable" ?
In case of "yes", which is the most stable source
         

: TexStar or the Mdk
   

Club ?

    

         

I am using Texstar's packages and they work great.
       

Unfortunately, I think
   

the qa on them is better than those packages
       

available from Club.
   

  

       

And where do I get these packages?

     

Go here http://www.zarb.org/~nanardon/ and set up
your urpmi sources.  
Make sure you get the Texstar resource.

--
Brant Fitzsimmons
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Are you sure the lockups can be attributed to KDE?  You said you tried 
the OpenGL screensavers so it appears that you have installed the nVidia 
drivers from nVidia.  I had strange lockups all the time until I 
re-installed 9.1 and didn't re-install the nVidia drivers.  I haven't 
even tried the drivers again because of the newfound stability I am 
experiencing.  Same KDE, no lockups.  I'm only forced to shutdown when a 
thunderstorm comes through.

Maybe you could try the original drivers that come with Mandrake to rule 
out the possibility of a video problem.

--
Brant Fitzsimmons
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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