[ltp] KDE2.x

[Boyan]

Thanks Carl,

it was a nice surprise to see your posting about kde on the 600x.
I did not suspect that other people could have the same problem and did
not ask the list.

Now KDE 2.1.1 and X do not freeze every now and then when I browse with
KFM in my 600x. I use suse 7.1 and after inserting the Screen Section
options you proposed I establish a clear improvement of X performance.
Regards, Boyan.

On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Carl Klitscher wrote:

>
> I have also been struggling with this for a while and finally came up with
> the following combination on my 600x. Most of the info came from this list
> for which I am eternally grateful.
>
> In addition to setting up GPM as a repeater and pointing X at /dev/gpmdata
> AND disabling clock stepping ( full 498.whatever Mhz) AND disabling the
> APM/PCI bus power management AND upgrading the BIOS AND nearly buying a
> chicken to sacrifice I then found an entry on
> http://www.xfree86.org/current/neomagic.4.html that suggested setting
>
> Option "XaaNoScanlineImageWriteRect"
> Option "XaaNoScanlineCPUToScreenColorExpandFill"
>
> in the Screen Section of the X config file. This recommendation is
> primarily for the Neomagic 2160 chipset and the 600x is the 2360 chipset
> but I didn't have anything else left to lose... (and most of the numbers
> are the same!)
>
> I was getting the same problem under SuSE 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 and RedHat 7.1 with
> KDE 2 and XFree86 4 and could never get it all to run for more than 5
> minutes at a time. I have now run for a week or so with no freezes and my
> laptop is on the verge of regaining its rightful place as a useful tool.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Carl
>
> Carl Klitscher
> Systems Specialist
> IBM New Zealand Ltd
> Phone (64-4) 576-5892. Mobile 021 460-594
> Occasionally sent from Notes 5 on a 600x running SuSE Linux 7.1 with
> Win4Lin V3
>
>
> Ted Lin <tedlin@pacbell.net>@bm-soft.com on 15/07/2001 16:58:01
>
> Please respond to linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
>
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>
>
> To:   linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
> cc:
> Subject:  Re: [ltp] KDE2.x
>
>
>
> I think the workaround you are mentioning was the discovery that
> systems that were running at less than full processor speed (power
> saving mode) would hang much more frequently. Unfortunately this
> didn't fix the problem for me and I could easily reproduce the hang
> by opening any KDE app and scrolling up and down rapidly. Anyone know
> if one of the very recent kernels might fix it?
>
>
> At 2:54 PM +0200 7/14/01, Jan Csernoch wrote:
> >
> >I still have the same problem with KDE 2.1.2. I experiened it even with
> >gnome. I think it must be the graph driver. My workaround is, when it
> >occures I press CTRL-ALT-ESC and then either the skull appears or the
> >forzen application disappears. The problem comes up if the panel
> >disappears. Anyone knows how to restart the panel in KDE?
> >
> >I really could live without this annoyance, anyone? There was someone
> >posting a workaround on this some time ago, but I lost the letter.
>
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