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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE - XFree86-4.2.0 problem?
From:       Marco Krohn <marco.krohn () gmx ! de>
Date:       2002-03-31 22:19:48
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On Saturday 30 March 2002 05:07, Rolf Magnus wrote:
> On Saturday 30 March 2002 04:34, Matt and Sarah wrote:

> > Even though the screen is frozen, the system is still running, the mouse
> > still moves, but i can't click anything.  Also i can't switch to another
> > terminal using ctrl+alt+F1, nor can i restart the X server with
> > ctrl+alt+backspace.  Trying to use alt+sysrq+r has no effect either.
>
> Same here. If I telnet into the machine, I can see that all apps are still
> running. Just X is frozen. If I try to kill X, the whole system freezes.
>
> > Any ideas what might be causing this conflict would be greatly
> > appreciated.
>
> might be a driver problem. I have an nvidia geforce2 mx 400 card with
> nvidia's driver (not the one that's part of XFree86).

FWIW: I have also an Athlon / GeForce system and had the very same problems 
with kde2 and kde3. After a system crash I reinstalled everything except the 
nvidia drivers and since a week or so everything works fine without freezes. 

Marco


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