> ---------- > From: Ogden, Aaron A.[SMTP:aogden@xxxxxxxxxx] > Reply To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Sent: 10. november 2003 16:44 > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Fedora Core 1 + KDE unstable? > > > hardware: Nvidia NForce2 + AMD Athlon XP 2400 + 1024MB DDR memory > software: Fedora Core 1, 'workstation' config plus KDE and software > development packages; nvidia drivers for nforce2 and geforce3 installed. > > First the good... I like the new startup screen, it's very professional > looking and it hides the scary boot messages from PHBs and newbies. > That is strange, on my FC1 system I saw 2-3 pages of cryptic, newbie-eating, PHB-scaring messages, before they were hidden by the gfx boot thing. > Reminds me of Windows or MacOS boot sequence which is not such a bad > thing. The desktop looks almost exactly like RH9 which is not such a > bad thing either. Unfortunately, FC1 is completely unstable on my > system, simple operations like cutting and pasting files between two > folders lock up the system. In another instance the system locked up > during mouse-over of the 'find files' item on the KDE menu. In all > cases the system is locked up hard and normal escape routes > (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, Ctrl-Alt-Delete, etc.) have no effect. So after > three hard crashes in ten minutes I'm thinking that FC1 + KDE is > completely unstable and maybe I should try using GNOME instead. Okay, I > switch my desktop to GNOME, and I pull up the file manager to continue > what I was doing before the crash. But the file manager (the 'start > here' icon on the desktop) is actually Konqueror, and as soon as I try > to cut-n-paste some files from one place to another the system locks up > again. Apparently when you install KDE and GNOME together it uses some > KDE stuff (e.g. Konqueror) within GNOME and vice versa. Has anyone else > seen this problem? I have three theories to explain this behavior, if > someone can confirm or elaborate please do so. > > 1) Fedora Core 1 + KDE has serious problems. > 2) Fedora kernel 2.4.22-nptl.2116 (or whatever) has serious problems > 3) Nvidia Nforce2 drivers are defective > > p.s. before anyone starts talking about 'hardware problems', Win2k SP4 > is rock stable on this machine, or as stable as Windows ever gets. No > overclocking. > Win2k is not a tool to determine if a PC has HW problems or not. CPUburn ot the other hand is ( -> http://users.ev1.net/~redelm/ ) Oh, did you you try without nVidia proprietary drivers ? > thanks in advance, > A > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
