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Saturday, March 8th 2003, 10:27pm

xfree86 4.3, System/KDE hangs every few seconds!

Hi people,
i had got many problems installing the xFree86 4.3 rpm's from the suse site! actually now it is working, but, the behavior of kde or X is very strange. "something" is lagging the whole system/kde/desktop now! (example: every few seconds, the whole desktop freezes, the mouse-cursor doesn't move, the konqui-window holds on loading pages.)
but i didn't find out what is the reason for that, i think it's because of the xfree86 4.3 rpm's or because i still use the first KDE3.1 rpm's from ftp.kde.org.
Should i download and "upgrade" kde3.1 to the suse-rpm's from ftp.suse.com ? since, there is a "minor" package diffrence if i compare the build-number of the kde.org rpm's to the suse.com rpm's :(
ah, i also installed the qt rpm's that are located in the same directory like xfree86 4.3 on suse.com.
can anybody help me? anybody got same problems ?
Now, i can only use "MS Windows" again, because it is really nerving, the behavior of Kde/X. waaaah ;_;
thanx

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Monday, March 10th 2003, 6:51am

If the update to XFree 4.3 caused your problem, downgrade this and not Qt. Do you have the new Qt 3.1.x rpms for XFree 4.3 from SuSE installed too?

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Monday, March 10th 2003, 4:46pm

re: qt-rpm's

yes, i also installed the qt-rpm's from SuSE, but the qt-rpm's located in the Xfree/qt/ folder.
if i have a time i will reinstall kde3.1 from suse's official kde-rpm's, maybe this will help.
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Monday, March 10th 2003, 6:50pm

Why is this posting sticky?

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Tuesday, March 11th 2003, 12:07am

what kind of question ?
actually, german translation of this site said it means: 'important'
hm, why i used to set this subject important, because, it is. because,
installing/upgrading some rpm's shouldn't make so much trouble right ?!
actually, i found out, that the glx-extension makes trouble.. well, i could set it off, but,
then i can even ask, who the fuck needs linux. then i can use windows again, where 'nearly' everything ;) works fine.
now i am asking myself, why i should post anything on a forum, if there is actually no constructive help.
thx

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Tuesday, March 11th 2003, 1:20pm

Hi,
it's not because Linux od XFree. I guess you use a nvidia or ati binary driver.
These drivers are not available at source. Thus they can not be compiled to match your System a 100%. Try to upgrade your nvidia or ati drivers if there are newer Versions available.
Do you use SuSE YOU? Be shure that allways use YOU whenever it's possible. It will download all available and needed rpm's

Dim

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Tuesday, March 11th 2003, 2:13pm

thx, i will try that later..
i am using an ATI Rage Fury 128 , 32MB AGB (no TV-out ;_; )
hm, i downloaded xfree86_glx rpm's too, and also the compileable kernel-modules.. at 1st i installed the xf86-kernel modules, but 3d didn't work,
later i installed the rpm's, and it worked, but, with that strange behavior..
when i remark the "load glx" option in "XF86config", the system doesn't hang anymore, but, of course, without 3d :/

before i used the ATI graphics card, i used a nvidia RivaTnT card, and i also compiled the suse-kernel 2.4.19, and the nvidia-kernel-modules before. But, the older xfree (4.2) worked with the ati-card.

another thing is, when i run "3Ddiag", it always says, that the package xf86_glx is not installed. that's wrong, because these files are included in the package "xfree86_glx". though, 3d worked even without 3Ddiag (but with that strange system behavior).

(if i have a time later, i could post some strange error-messages, that i get if i am running 'startx' (well, kde is starting, and everything seems to work (very slow/system hangs)) ; the errors are also kde-related. maybe because of the font-problems, that also other people are discussing.)
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Tuesday, March 11th 2003, 2:29pm

Hi,
I'm using a nvidia card, but without 3d because I don't need it. I heard that XF 4.3 has more drivers even some with 3D support. I found this: http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/r128.4.html but I'm not sure if they have full 3D support in this driver.
Have you already tried this cursor: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=5376&vote=good

Dim

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Tuesday, January 20th 2004, 1:01am

Probably not your problem, but...

I've always had this kind of issue with KDE when used in conjunction with my laptop. Every time the dratted thing checks the remaining battery lifetime, the whole screen freezes for a second or so. It's a problem I hadn't observed in gnome. (Thing is, I prefer KDE and rarely mess with gnome.)

In the case of my laptop, I had to increase the period between battery checks to 15 minutes or so to minimize the freezes.