Hans van der Merwe wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 08:25 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote: >> Okay, just for everyone's knowledge, Vista has this annoying habit of >> asking if I want to save a password. On my sites, I have several with >> similar domains and differnt passwords. Vista mucks them up. >> >> This - plus an annoying habit of locking up on a regular basis - >> decided me that I'd just simply go with SUSE 10.2 and create a VMWare >> XP machine. So, last night I painlessly installed 10.2 on my laptop >> (which went flawlessley) and am now up on KDE. Even my multimedia keys >> are recognized!! >> >> http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/2007/20070523_102_desktop.jpg >> >> Okay, one problem. It seems when I'm using firefox - which is most of >> the time - I get a lock up. The clock icon shows and I can pretty much >> do nothing but power off. EXT3 - which I noticed replaced reiser - > > > Install FFX 2.0.0.3 - I had same problem that was solved doing this. > I suspect the flash plugin - update that aswell. > > The machine doesnt really lockup - but flash has this annoying feature > of capturing your keyboard and mouse, and not giving it back. > > In future try a CTRL-ALT-F1 and see if you can login with root and kill > the offending process. If not, try SSH into it - if that doesnt work > reboot and diagnose using the /var/log/messages log. > And if this does not help, you might step back and think about it:
-You installed Vista and it was locking up. Fwiw I played around with Vista on a friends AMD X2 Notebook and despite what people say, it runs and behaves absolutely ok, just like a security optimised XP. -You installed SuSE and something is locking up. Are you sure, your hardware is ok? regards Eberhard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
