[opensuse] This is driving me crazy
I can't seem to get a stable 10.2 system running on one of my boxes. I've tried both the 32 and 64 bit versions. Both seemingly randomly lock whenever I access my user's home directory. Also, there are random lockups of the taskbar. I'm about ready to go back to 10.0. I've been googling like crazy for the past 4-5 days and can't find anything close to my problem. Also, in the graphical mode, the keyboard keys become so touchy that I often get 5-6 repeats of the last letter I pressed. Am I the only one seeing this problem? Oh, maybe this will help; on the advice of this email list, I put an NVidia card into a slot because I couldn't get my ATI card to recognize my widescreen monitor, but the ATI remains in the box because it's built into the motherboard. BTW, this has taken me almost an hour to write because of that damn key repeating problem. TIA, Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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BTW, this has taken me almost an hour to write because of that damn key repeating problem.
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On Wednesday July 11 2007 16:13, Jim Sabatke wrote:
I can't seem to get a stable 10.2 system running on one of my boxes. I've tried both the 32 and 64 bit versions. Both seemingly randomly lock whenever I access my user's home directory. Also, there are random lockups of the taskbar.
I'm about ready to go back to 10.0. I've been googling like crazy for the past 4-5 days and can't find anything close to my problem.
Also, in the graphical mode, the keyboard keys become so touchy that I often get 5-6 repeats of the last letter I pressed.
Am I the only one seeing this problem?
Oh, maybe this will help; on the advice of this email list, I put an NVidia card into a slot because I couldn't get my ATI card to recognize my widescreen monitor, but the ATI remains in the box because it's built into the motherboard.
BTW, this has taken me almost an hour to write because of that damn key repeating problem.
TIA,
Jim Jim my 32 bit OpenSuse 10.2 with KDE 3.5.5 has been stable.I installed it Last November from boxed version. I have 866MHZ PIII with 768MB Ram. I had to reinstalled last week when my hard drive burped and corrupted all my sound files. Reinstall fixed and has been stable since. Even lastest kernel I put on yesterday seems OK so far.
I run a Nvidia FX 5200 card, Sound blaster sound card. i have not tried 64-bit stuff yet but am in the process of looking for new box. Thinking of building one so I don't have to get that Windows junk on it. Sorry I cannot help any more.. -- Russ Linux register user 441463 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Jim Sabatke wrote:
I can't seem to get a stable 10.2 system running on one of my boxes. I've tried both the 32 and 64 bit versions. Both seemingly randomly lock whenever I access my user's home directory. Also, there are random lockups of the taskbar.
Do the freezes occur if you stop xdm and fiddle around in the console? I had similar problems with 10.2 and it turned out to be caused by the ATi driver. I rolled it back a couple of versions (to 8.28 if I remember correctly) to get a stable system.
Oh, maybe this will help; on the advice of this email list, I put an NVidia card into a slot because I couldn't get my ATI card to recognize my widescreen monitor, but the ATI remains in the box because it's built into the motherboard.
You could always copy the screen settings from xorg.conf and adapt it for the ATi card. That's what I used to do. You didn't say if you had the freezing problem with the ATi card or if it is just with the nVidia card. If it's just with the nVidia card, this might be a solution. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
koffiejunkie wrote:
Jim Sabatke wrote:
I can't seem to get a stable 10.2 system running on one of my boxes. I've tried both the 32 and 64 bit versions. Both seemingly randomly lock whenever I access my user's home directory. Also, there are random lockups of the taskbar.
Do the freezes occur if you stop xdm and fiddle around in the console? I had similar problems with 10.2 and it turned out to be caused by the ATi driver. I rolled it back a couple of versions (to 8.28 if I remember correctly) to get a stable system. No, console mode seems to work fine.
Oh, maybe this will help; on the advice of this email list, I put an NVidia card into a slot because I couldn't get my ATI card to recognize my widescreen monitor, but the ATI remains in the box because it's built into the motherboard.
You could always copy the screen settings from xorg.conf and adapt it for the ATi card. That's what I used to do. You didn't say if you had the freezing problem with the ATi card or if it is just with the nVidia card. If it's just with the nVidia card, this might be a solution.
The ATI card is on the motherboard so I don't have any way (that I know of) to get the nVidia only running. Adding an nVidia card was a recommendation from this list, and under 10.0 it worked fine. I couldn't get my widescreen monitor working under ATI and any of their drivers. I kept ending up with a blank or random noise screen with ATI. I The nVidia card worked fine under 10.0. Thanks for responding. BTW, if I run "lsof -b" when the system is misbehaving, I see a LOT of missing or unknown files. I'll publish a short set of those here if I manage to be in a mode to get them again. Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 12 July 2007 18:23, Jim Sabatke wrote:
The ATI card is on the motherboard so I don't have any way (that I know of) to get the nVidia only running.
Can you disable it in the BIOS? -- Bob openSUSE 10.2 x86_64, Kernel 2.6.18.8-0.3, KDE 3.5.6 r31.4 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Bob Williams wrote:
On Thursday 12 July 2007 18:23, Jim Sabatke wrote:
The ATI card is on the motherboard so I don't have any way (that I know of) to get the nVidia only running.
Can you disable it in the BIOS?
If not, some boards allow you to disable it. Usually with a jumper setting. -- Rui Santos http://www.ruisantos.com/ Veni, vidi, Linux! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Rui Santos wrote:
Bob Williams wrote:
On Thursday 12 July 2007 18:23, Jim Sabatke wrote:
The ATI card is on the motherboard so I don't have any way (that I know of) to get the nVidia only running.
Can you disable it in the BIOS?
If not, some boards allow you to disable it. Usually with a jumper setting.
Thanks, I'll look around online to see if anything pops up, like a board manual. Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Rui Santos wrote:
Bob Williams wrote:
On Thursday 12 July 2007 18:23, Jim Sabatke wrote:
The ATI card is on the motherboard so I don't have any way (that I know of) to get the nVidia only running.
Can you disable it in the BIOS?
If not, some boards allow you to disable it. Usually with a jumper setting.
I never really considered it was the ATI board because Yast always seems to pick the nVidia board when installing anything. However, you provoked me into thinking that maybe something in that ATI card was causing problems. ATI doesn't have a very easy website to find info on, but I finally ran into this: #begin quote 737-167: System Hangs While Moving the Mouse Around on the Screen in Linux This information applies to the following system configurations: * ATI Proprietary Linux Driver 3.14.1 or earlier While moving the mouse around on the screen, the system will hang just when the mouse cursor image is about to change. This issue is most likely to occur when numerous windows are open and many things are happening on the screen simultaneously. To correct this issue, please download and install ATI Proprietary Linux Driver 3.14.6 or higher. #end quote That seems to be a good definition of the problem I'm seeing. Looking back, it does seem related to mouse movement. I've installed the ATI driver and hopefully it will resolve this problem. I'll let the list know about it if I can go for a reasonable period without repeats. Thanks to all who responded. Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Jim Sabatke wrote:
Rui Santos wrote:
Bob Williams wrote:
On Thursday 12 July 2007 18:23, Jim Sabatke wrote:
The ATI card is on the motherboard so I don't have any way (that I know of) to get the nVidia only running.
Can you disable it in the BIOS?
If not, some boards allow you to disable it. Usually with a jumper setting.
I never really considered it was the ATI board because Yast always seems to pick the nVidia board when installing anything. However, you provoked me into thinking that maybe something in that ATI card was causing problems. ATI doesn't have a very easy website to find info on, but I finally ran into this:
#begin quote
737-167: System Hangs While Moving the Mouse Around on the Screen in Linux
This information applies to the following system configurations:
* ATI Proprietary Linux Driver 3.14.1 or earlier
While moving the mouse around on the screen, the system will hang just when the mouse cursor image is about to change.
This issue is most likely to occur when numerous windows are open and many things are happening on the screen simultaneously.
To correct this issue, please download and install ATI Proprietary Linux Driver 3.14.6 or higher.
#end quote
That seems to be a good definition of the problem I'm seeing. Looking back, it does seem related to mouse movement.
I've installed the ATI driver and hopefully it will resolve this problem. I'll let the list know about it if I can go for a reasonable period without repeats.
Thanks to all who responded.
Jim
After quite a bit of use, I have had no further lockups. It looks like updating the ATI driver did make a difference. It seems a little strange to me since I never see any settings for ATI related functions; the nVidia card seemed to take over. Thanks to all that answered. Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Bob Williams wrote:
On Thursday 12 July 2007 18:23, Jim Sabatke wrote:
The ATI card is on the motherboard so I don't have any way (that I know of) to get the nVidia only running.
Can you disable it in the BIOS?
I looked around BIOS when I originally put the nVidia card in and there wasn't anything helpful there. Thanks, Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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