Hi Stan, great to read this! I just found out, that there is a new driver available for NVIDIA and I will install it immediately... I use Nvidia 6600. It could be a graphics driver problem, but it used to work before... How can the graphics-instructions - issued by kopete (not directly of course) - bring down X? How does that work? And also it doesn't happen on a regular basis. Thanks! On Monday 30 April 2007 16:14, S Glasoe wrote:
On Monday April 30 2007 8:41:34 am Siegfried Wolkenstein wrote:
Hello,
I haven't mixed SUSE kde with stock kde...
killing won't work... kill -9 <proc number> doesn't work... in fact it is impossible to kill any of the X processes... Yesterday I updated every rpm-package I have installed... Just now It happend once again. This time it was kopete, which caused the trouble (at least I think so): I was sending a message over the icqprotocol and suddenly the the window turned pale and freezed. Then the keyboard got stuck and I did a ctrl-alt-backspace, since all the other keys got barred. The ctrl-alt-backspace let the X disappear (but the process was still running) but after that it didn't restart. Then the usual: changing runlevels, kill -9 and some other useless stuff. Eventually a reset did the "trick".. grrrr!
This sounds like a video driver issue. Where the system totally locks up while doing anything and only a reboot will bring it back. I suggest you re-evaluate your video card driver, monitor settings and sax2 settings in general.
For example, if you are using ATI's fglrx driver, go back to the radeon driver and see if the system is stable. -- Stan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org