2010/1/25 Robert Cunningham <rcunning@kettering.edu>:
And as I sit here with a machine at work running a Pentium 4 @ 2.4Ghz ,1.5GB memory, ATI Radeon X1650 with dual monitors, and Suse 11.1 with both 3.5.10 and 4.3 from factory. The 3.5 runs everything very well Kpilot syncs fine, I have 3D graphics with glxgears running at 2460 fps. When I run 4.3 it takes 4minutes to boot from the login screen, then the screen will freeze randomly about every 5 to 40 minutes for about 1 minute to 4 minutes or sometimes I have to reboot. If I play videos from youtube the video will shudder several times and if I play full screen it will shudder and then lock up every time requiring a complete reboot. About 25% of the time when I left click on the mouse, on any document, icon or screen the cursor will jump about 5 mm selecting something else or nothing, you can do this repeatedly( ten -twenty times) until it finally works or until I move far enough down so that I hit the right spot. There is no Kpilot and kdepim reports there won't be so no syncing my palm pilot. I have a Toshiba laptop with a ATI 1700 graphics chip that the mouse does the same thing on. They both seem to run a lot slower. The laptop I installed with just 4.3 adding 3.5 a month later it did not seem to slow it down anymore that it already was, from comparing it to just 3.5 on 11.0. I have been really trying to like 4.3 but it is really getting in my way of doing some meaningful work.
Robert, if you have a spare partition on that machine please install something very recent with KDE 4.4 RC. Kubuntu makes this easy. Then test without installing any Qt3 apps. The issues that you describe are not typical of other machines that I have installed on with similar specs. I actually had KDE 4.3.1 running on a 1.6 Ghz Pentium 4 with 1GB RAM and it ran just fine. But that was without any Qt3 libraries, which are known to affect the system. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org