Browser crashing system
Hi All. I'm running 9.3 as installed from the DVD on an Athlon 64-3500+ Venice with 1 gig of ram and a WD raptor SATA hd, and a dialup modem. I'm having an ongoing problem with any browser I use. The result is always the same but the exact cause varies. Sometimes the cause is just trying to open a web site, some time it is clicking on a link in a site, sometimes it is clicking on a link in an email, sometimes it is simply adding a site to my bookmarks. It seems to be just about anything but no one thing all the time. One time a site will open fine the next time it won't etc. The result is that when attempting one of the above mentioned actions or virtually any other in a browser, the screen will either go white, or change to a sort of multicolored tweed pattern, or a series of large orange colored blocks with bits of previously visited web pages in them with only the three control boxes in the upper right hand corner still visible. These remain usable so that I can shut down the browser. However after shutting down the browser I get what ever of the three previously mentioned backgrounds in my email client preview pane with no way of reading the email which should be there. It appears to similarly affect OOo. The only way I can get full functionality back is to either end the session and start another or to reboot. Even there when I click on log out I get the log out dialog surrounded by one of the random, all white, tweed, or block pattern background patterns. This happens no matter whether I'm using Firefox. Konqueror, or Mozilla. Any and all insight will be greatly appreciated! -- LTR bulloved@nitline.com
Any and all insight will be greatly appreciated!
It sounds like a X server problem. If you use any of the unsupported binary only X servers like ATI firegl or nvidia binary only driver you might want to disable that. -Andi
On Sunday August 21 2005 11:45 am, Andi Kleen wrote:
Any and all insight will be greatly appreciated!
It sounds like a X server problem. If you use any of the unsupported binary only X servers like ATI firegl or nvidia binary only driver you might want to disable that.
-Andi Thank you Andi for your quick response. Unfortunately I only very generally understand what you are saying. I am using SUSE 9.3 with whatever defaults are installed with a "standard" install from the DVD. My system does have an Nvidia Gforce 6600 GT video card. I assume the driver is whatever was loaded by default by the SUSE installer.
As far as the X-server is concerned, again it is whatever was installed by default. At least I haven't intentionally changed it. Does that information help any at all? -- LTR bulloved@nitline.com
Use YAST and update the nvidia driver from your favorite update site and see if that helps. On Sunday 21 August 2005 11:46 am, Langsley wrote:
Thank you Andi for your quick response. Unfortunately I only very generally understand what you are saying. I am using SUSE 9.3 with whatever defaults are installed with a "standard" install from the DVD. My system does have an Nvidia Gforce 6600 GT video card. I assume the driver is whatever was loaded by default by the SUSE installer.
As far as the X-server is concerned, again it is whatever was installed by default. At least I haven't intentionally changed it.
Does that information help any at all? -- LTR bulloved@nitline.com
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:
Any and all insight will be greatly appreciated!
It sounds like a X server problem. If you use any of the unsupported binary only X servers like ATI firegl or nvidia binary only driver you might want to disable that.
Same problems here - Fujitsu SIEMENS Scaleo T with GeForce 6600 and X.Org drivers. I have not tried the Nvidia binary only drivers yet. Volkmar -- Volkmar Glauche - Department of Neurology volkmar.glauche@uniklinik-freiburg.de Universitaetsklinikum Freiburg Phone 49(0)761-270-5331 Breisacher Str. 64 Fax 49(0)761-270-5416 79106 Freiburg
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Andi Kleen
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Chuck Davis
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Langsley
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Volkmar Glauche