Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3785 mails)

[BandiPat <penguin0601@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 05 October 2003 12:30 pm, Stan Glasoe wrote:
[...]
> I've been having this problem from day 2 of 8.2 Pro. Haven't narrowed
> it down at all. I can faithfully lock-up a user using mouse over or
> scrolling the mouse wheel in YaST Install/Remove Software package
> selection. I have changed yast2-qt-2.7.18 from -41 to -6, logged out,
> did a ctrl+alt +backspace, logged in and still same problem.
>
> Software versions are generally the same as Paul Leopardi's.
>
> I've made sure my mouse is correctly selected under YaST2 both GUI
> and ncurses and from a root prompt and under init3. I've also done
> all this with hard reboots in-between just for fun!
>
> What I do to recover from the lock-up is to ctrl+alt+F1, load top, do
> k (for kill) and the PID for the yast2 session, hit enter on the
> default kill level of 15, wait for it to die and then ctrl+alt+F7 to
> get back to GUI (KDE 3.1.4 in my case) and then do an alt+tab to get
> control of the screen back. May not be any quicker but it is less
> drastic than killing X outright. I usually have KMail up and running
> so killing X causes headaches cleaning up after it. I know I could
> stop everything before using YaST2 Install/Remove Software but that's
> the point - I shouldn't have to!
>
> My graphics is an ATI AIW 8500 using gatos.sf.net's current drivers.
> Love my multimedia... patiently waiting on 3D enhancements.
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> THANKS!
> Stan
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Stan,
Did you try this without the Gatos drivers from day 2?  Since XFree86 
4.3, the 8500 Radeon is fully supported, both 2D & 3D, so I don't see 
the usefulness of the Gatos drivers.  I run the ATI binary drivers on 
my 9200 without problems and Mantel is now providing the module in his 
kernels as well.

I just mention the above, because I have not experienced the problem you 
mention, before using just 4.3 or now using the ATI 3.2.5 binary.

Lee
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