On Sunday 05 October 2003 12:30 pm, Stan Glasoe wrote: [...]
I've been having this problem from day 2 of 8.2 Pro. Haven't narrowed it down at all. I can faithfully lock-up a user using mouse over or scrolling the mouse wheel in YaST Install/Remove Software package selection. I have changed yast2-qt-2.7.18 from -41 to -6, logged out, did a ctrl+alt +backspace, logged in and still same problem.
Software versions are generally the same as Paul Leopardi's.
I've made sure my mouse is correctly selected under YaST2 both GUI and ncurses and from a root prompt and under init3. I've also done all this with hard reboots in-between just for fun!
What I do to recover from the lock-up is to ctrl+alt+F1, load top, do k (for kill) and the PID for the yast2 session, hit enter on the default kill level of 15, wait for it to die and then ctrl+alt+F7 to get back to GUI (KDE 3.1.4 in my case) and then do an alt+tab to get control of the screen back. May not be any quicker but it is less drastic than killing X outright. I usually have KMail up and running so killing X causes headaches cleaning up after it. I know I could stop everything before using YaST2 Install/Remove Software but that's the point - I shouldn't have to!
My graphics is an ATI AIW 8500 using gatos.sf.net's current drivers. Love my multimedia... patiently waiting on 3D enhancements.
Any other ideas?
THANKS! Stan
Stan, Did you try this without the Gatos drivers from day 2? Since XFree86 4.3, the 8500 Radeon is fully supported, both 2D & 3D, so I don't see the usefulness of the Gatos drivers. I run the ATI binary drivers on my 9200 without problems and Mantel is now providing the module in his kernels as well. I just mention the above, because I have not experienced the problem you mention, before using just 4.3 or now using the ATI 3.2.5 binary. Lee -- --- KMail v1.5.4 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...