Message: 17 From: Fotios Nastos <nastos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Fedora Core 1 + KDE unstable? Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:59:21 -0500 Reply-To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx <snip> > > 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 > > This could be related: Using redhat 7.3 (fully up2dated) with kernel 2.4.20 > and KDE causes my system to lock-up in the same manner. It can be as soon as > a few minutes after a reboot. It happens by just by doing simple tasks, but > I can't see how to make it repeatable. Only seems to happen in KDE apps, and > only started happenning after I upgraded to 2.4.20. I reverted back to > 2.4.18 and everything is stable again. I'm not sure if it's a hardware > problem or not. I haven't run a proper memcheck in about a year, but last > time I did everything checked out. Hmmm, I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one having this problem. I believe that the RH 2.4.20 kernels have the low-latency patch (and others) applied to them, perhaps that is causing the problem. I will compile some vanilla 2.4.22 and 2.6.0 kernels and see how that goes.
