Fedora Core 1 + KDE unstable?
David Balazic
david.balazic at hermes.si
Mon Nov 10 15:53:28 UTC 2003
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> From: Ogden, Aaron A.[SMTP:aogden at unocal.com]
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> Subject: Fedora Core 1 + KDE unstable?
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> 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
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