On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 16:27 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote: > On Sunday 08 April 2007 16:16:17 Art Fore wrote: > > Have a computer with GA-M57SLI-S4 (still with Gigabyte bios) that I > > installed Suse 10.2 on. I have had so many problems, I am about to give > > up on it and get another motherboard. Here are the problems. Hopefully > > someone can give me some insight on fixing them. > > > > KDE desktop only has trash can on it, even though the Desktop folder is > > under my user name and contains Firefox, My Computer, etc. My other Suse > > 10.2 64-bit amd shows the Firefox, My Computer, etc on the desktop. Have > > searched through the Desktop Settings, but have not found any difference > > between the two computers. Does not make sense to me why they are > > difference when I installed Suse from the same DVD. > > Go to KDE's control center, System Administration->Paths and make sure the > Desktop path is pointing to your Desktop directory
Tried this, they are the same on both machines, that is, the working and not properly working. > > > When I click the Logout icon under the start menu, it goes away and > > nothi8ng happens. Only way to get out is to ctrl +alt +backspace. Then > > all I get is a black screen. ctrl +alt +delete does nothing. even blind > > typing startx again does nothing. only way out is master reset. > > The logout thing sounds like you have a program hanging that won't respond. > KDE won't exit until all applications running have exited. I think that is > configurable somewhere, but I can't find it this instant. Using Gnome System monitor, nothing happens with it when I click Logout, and everything is sleeping, I mean everything except gnome system monitor. > > The black screen thing is most likely a graphics driver thing. Are you by any > chance running the ATI binary driver? Because exactly that behaviour is a > known bug, fixed in the latest release (8.35.5) Video cards are Nvidia 7300 on both machines, except the M57SLI is PCIExpress, the other is AGP. Replaced the 9755 driver that I downloaded with the 9629 driver that is on the working machine, same problem. > > > /proc/cpuinfo both cores are shown, but the clock frequency is shown as > > 1000 MHz, eventhough it is an AMD64 dual core 4600+. My other computer > > has a 3800+ and shows 2000 MHz clock frequency. Gnome system monitor on > > both machines shows the % of each core. Don't know if this is a linux > > problem or bios reporting problem or whatever. > > No, it is a power management thing. To conserve energy, your CPUs aren't > running at full throttle unless you need them to. Run a CPU-intensive program > and look at the cpuinfo again Will check that out. Art > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
