I'm having the same problem.. I used to have a RedHat 5.2 system with KDE 1.1.1 until this weekend when I purchased SuSE 6.1. I'm running a dual Pentium Pro system with 64 megs ECC EDO, and two 2 gig Quantum SCSI drives connected to the Adaptec 7880 controller on the motherboard. I also have Intel EtherExpress Pro 100, CS4236 chipset for sound, a Matrox Mystique and a 12 meg Voodoo2 card. I never had lockups with the 2.0.36 kernel and KDE1.1.1. I've had several so far with the 2.2.5 kernel and KDE 1.1. Is there a How-To on upgrading SuSE 6.1 to KDE 1.1.1? I know there were several bugfixes in that release.. Thanks.. Darin -

-----Original Message----- From: Emmanuel Gravel [SMTP:chemtechweb@psn.net] Sent: Monday, May 31, 1999 1:07 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SuSE Linux] Hard lockups

I'm using SuSE Linux 6.1 on a Pentium 90 with 32 MB EDO Ram, 2MB S3 Trio 64 V2 (no-name brand), 3Com 3c509B TPO NIC, SB Vibra16 PnP (mostly not used, but have the OSS drivers which I only run on- demand), primary master IDE is a 3.1 GB WD Caviar with Linux, primary slave is a 24X CD-Rom, secondary master is a 2 GB Fujitsu with FreeBSD (dormant and unmounted for the time I'm becoming comfortable with Linux). Kernel is 2.2.5 I think (standard SuSE 6.1 kernel).

My problem: when running X (and only when running X apparently) the computer just hard-locks completely. Can't even ping to it. At first I thought it was just X locking up and trapping all signals from the mouse and keyboard, but since I can't ping to it, it means the whole OS is locked up. I'm running KDE 1.1 which is also standard with SuSE 6.1, and the X server is the S3-specific server. Haven't tried using the SVGA server to see if there's a difference though.

If anyone has seen (and hopefully solved) this or similar problems, or if you know how I can track down what's happening, I'd greatly appreciate it. The above info was just to be thourough (maybe a little too much? :)

Thanks in advance,

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