On Jan 8, 2008 1:45 PM, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tuesday 08 January 2008 17:47, Alan Cox wrote: > > > I'd appreciate knowing if anyone else has had similar problems before I > > > roll back to F7. It is possible that I am having hardware problems, so > > > the F7 roll back may not help. > > > > I am seeing some similar problems with gnome based FC8 applications > > leaking memory horribly which they didn't do before. Not quite the same > > as you report however. > > > > Is there anything logged in dmesg when your system stalls ? > > The problem I have on F8 with KDE is that there is horrible flickering on the > right hand edges of all windows, and icons. I've only had that before on FC2 > on the same machine, while running Boinc. > > At the moment, I have Archlinux booted up on this machine, and the KDE desktop > is rock steady, not the slightest flicker. The same goes for F7, and FC5, and > my Debian installs on this machine. It's odd why F8 is behaving this way. > > I have had the desktop totally lockup on this machine, needing a hard reset, > but I run so many distro's on it that I can't remember which one it was.Doh. > > Nigel. For the purpose of discussions in Fedora forums, "desktop" is an alias of "Gnome desktop". If you have KDE probs, you might want to create a separate thread, see if we can help you at all. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com )
