On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 17:11:09 +0000, Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Unfortunately, X or KDE (I don't know which one...) freezes fairly often... I can, of course, hit the reset button on the front of the computer, but that's not good a good thing to do. Is there anyything else I may be able to do? I don't want to lose data...
Seems like either keyboard input is ignored, or the stuff projected to the screen completely freezes. Probably the second, since I can still move the mouse around. Just can't click anything, and icons and all don't change when I mouse-over them.
I've gotton a similar problem, when using an nvidia card with nvidia's driver on a cheap motherboard. It had problems with AGP.
If you are using an nvidia card w/ nvidia driver, try adding the line Option "NvAGP" "0" to your "Device" section, and see if that improves stability
Hey... That gives me an idea. Think it could be that just video output is forzen, so I could hit Ctrl-Alt-F2 and log in as root and reboot or something?
You may be able to ssh in from another box and restart X to recover.
Hahaha. While reading this message, it froze. XD
Anyway, after putting quotation marks around the zero, X and KDE loaded fine. That's a good sign. Even changing a perfectly normal setting seems to have a habit of breaking X on this system.
After getting into KDE, I opened up a Konsole and did emerge --help and scrolled up and down in it, and no freezes or anything. Konsole was the most common problem, especially when I scrolled in it. Thank you thank you thank you. <3 <3
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