On 09/30/2010 11:44 AM, Bob Williams pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On Wednesday 29 Sep 2010 21:43:57 Will Stephenson wrote:
On Wednesday 29 September 2010 21:11:11 Bob Williams wrote:
There was some discussion in the past few weeks about frequent freezes of the mouse and keyboard. See thread "This guy _really_ likes kde 4.5". I have tried various changes of kernel, and am now back on 2.6.34.7-0.3. I have also upgraded dbus to 1.4, but the problems continue unchanged.
If anyone else who experienced the same problems found a solution, I would be grateful for a pointer.
The mouse and keyboard hangs aren't dbus related - the dbus threading issue just makes the app itself freeze.
I would see if you can reproduce the hangs with a new user account. If you can't, start adding apps that you usually use in your normal user account until the behaviour manifests. If it does appear with the new user, I tend to suspect an unlucky constellation of kernel and nvidia driver. Try a different nvidia driver if possible.
FWIW in the earlier thread I noticed that you use Yakuake. This does use the 3D hardware to do its translucency effect.
Thanks, Will. I tried starting all my usual apps in a new user account, but couldn't get the undesired behaviour to repeat itself. This includes yakuake, gkrellm, basket notes, amarok, kontact and firefox.
I had thought I was suffering from bug #638200, but this is marked as fixed.
I'm inclined to agree (with my limited knowledge) that it's a graphics driver problem. Is there a quick and dirty how-to which would guide me through switching from the nvidia proprietary drivers to the nouveau driver? Uninstalling the nvidia driver in YaST left me with no graphics at all. The nouveau driver appears to be installed, I just have to get it to function.
Or maybe it's the nouveau driver that's causing the problem? I've read the wiki entry on nvidia graphics problems, but I'm hesitant to edit xorg.conf if that's not the cause.
TIA,
Bob
You logged in as a new user and didn't have the problems you see in your account and you still think it's a driver issue? Think again, it has to be a errant config setting in your user login. If it were a driver issue it would affect any user that logged in. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org