[ltp] KDE2.x

[Carl Klitscher]

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

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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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