Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (270 mails)

[timo raty <timo.raty@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello list,

I'm starting a local Linux Group here and we have the opportunity
of using a computer class for our Linux learning. At the moment
most of the teaching comes from me.

The computers in the class are causing numerous problems.
Being Compaq machines they have some weird ACPI BIOS
incompatibility which can be solved with boot parameter (we
put acpi=off there). Worse yet, the graphical display seems
to fail after a short while with (at least almost) all of the computers.

I can provide details of the hardware a bit later but perhaps somebody
out there recognizes this:
1) login to KDE or twm (probably others too)
2) launch konqueror and try to enter an URL to go
	=> screen is filled with narrow vertical stripes, different
	colors and nothing sensible is showing
	neither mouse nor keyboard seem to answer/get control of
	it (including CTRL-ALT-F1 and CTRL-ALT-DEL)
  (it will fail without konqueror too, it seems)
3) reboot (disk probably gets fixed) and it seems to be ok again.

Graphic chip is intel8xx something and based on the same behaviour
happening on both KDE and twm I would guess this is not KDE problem
but XFree86/driver or similar problem. I might get the hardware details
and they are likely to help. All these computers are CompaQ, some
not-too-new model, 64MB or 128MB ram, CD-ROM, network card
and harddisk - nothing more special I/O.

Most of the machines are same hardware and most of them did this
yesterday - not all of the students tried X but I'd guess that all that
tried faced the problem.

does this ring a bell?

These systems run NT4 normally (from different harddisk) so they
should be working quite OK on the hardware side.

I'll find out the hardware and XFree86 log information ASAP if this does
not get solved faster.

regards,
timo