On 06/22/2011 08:28 PM, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
2011/6/23 Gary Montalbine<[email protected]>:
As I mentioned earlier I was having trouble with an overloaded windows
taskbar or whatever is across the bottom that shows what is open in my
windows. Also the program would suddenly try to reboot and stop. This
happened at least 3 times in 6 days. I reloaded ML2010.2. Monday I decided
to retry Mageia because I liked a couple of features. Outside of the
inability to select the proprietary driver for my radeon video card during
install all went well. I figured out how to install it using mcc. I changed
the kernel to desktop instead of server. About 3 hours later the system
froze and I had to push the reset button. The system froze again Tuesday. So
far no problem today. I have had more freeze ups in the last 3 weeks with
Mageia than an entire year with ML. I am a user with limited technical
skills. I would be glad to work with someone to see if we can figure out the
problem. If it continues I will need to return to ML.
I'm no techie but I'd start with describing exactly what you were
doing when the system freezed (like what apps were open, what you were
doing the moment the freeze happened, etc.). Plus a little bit more
about the hardware of the computer.
Technical terminology may be faulty. I have a 64 bit CPU with 4 1 Gig
memory cards. I use the 32 bit version of Mageia with the desktop
kernel. I use KDE as my desktop. I have 8 windows that usually have
programs open in them. I think with the first install iscan with Gimp
overloaded the taskbar. Every time I scanned a photo a new window would
open until eventually there would be no text. Only small icons. The
program would then go into a reboot that froze. With the second install
I was in Thunderbird both times. It just froze. No attempt to reboot.
However gimp was open. Not sure about iscan. The computer runs 24 hrs a
day.
Gary
