On Mon February 9 2009 10:45:46 pm Constantinos Maltezos wrote:
On Mon February 9 2009 6:38:11 pm Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Monday, 2009-02-09 at 17:36 -0600, Constantinos Maltezos wrote:
My RAM is okay. I tried booting the rescue thing from the install disk and running fsck, but it complains about being unable to create a bad blocks file and I'm not sure how to get around that.
Huh-oh... if you do have bad blocks, that's a "bad thing". It might only affect files belonging to kde4. Chance!
Yeah, which is why I'm trying to figure out how to run it to where it writes bad blocks to a file. I'm not sure what it wants. I was specifying a file on the virtual RAM drive - does it want a physical drive to write to? My file system is reiserfs, by the way.
Okay, a quick update on this: I still haven't figured out how to specify a bad blocks file to fsck.reiserfs without it complaining, but I was thinking about the times I updated through yast. If some files of some package(s) for KDE4 that are accessed enough to cause a lockup every time KDE4 is run are written on some bad blocks, wouldn't yast complain when I tried to update them? Anyway, aside from that, I logged into KDE3 for the first time in a long time (I thought I had used it more recently than that) and after about seven minutes, it locked up. It seems to me that the only common thread is compositing (I have those more primitive effects KDE3 has available turned on, even though I use kwin). This made me suspect my video card. I did indeed experience video troubles when trying to start games (UT2004 and Descent 3) from WindowMaker. After, I was successfully able to launch Doom 3 and I loaded a saved game and let it sit for a few hours - no lockup. Could it be that KDE4 and KDE3 with accelerated graphical features would lock my system up but a game as graphically intensive as Doom 3 would not? I would try Compiz if I could get it to work, but I can't seem to. It occurs to me that the gpu is overheating, but wouldn't it overheat with Doom 3 worse? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org