FC3 Seems to "Freeze" sometimes
Gustavo Seabra
seabra at ksu.edu
Wed Nov 24 18:43:28 UTC 2004
Rick Wagner wrote:
>On Wednesday 24 November 2004 6:10 am, Colin O'Flynn wrote:
>
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I'm having a wierd to me problem with FC3. It occasionally seems to stop
>>responding for periods of time. I can't click on anything with the mouse,
>>then eventually it starts responding again.
>>
>>Some useful information:
>>
>>-Using KDE
>>-Using nvidia driver
>>
>>It seems to happen when Firefox is open, though I have that open a lot
>>anyway. I get some error messages from X about "BadWindow" and invalid
>>window parameter. However I seem to get these when there is no problem as
>>well..
>>
>>Anyone else see this? I tried searching but couldn't find much.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>> -Colin
>>
>>
>
>
>I've noticed similar things on my laptop. No nvidia, but using KDE too.
>Also, I have noticed that when it does this (it doesn't completely hang, but
>almost), I am able to get a terminal window and do a top. It shows firefox
>using 100% CPU. I've seen KDE, Firefox or Thunderbird mentiond on this
>thread. Anyone else seeing Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird at 100% CPU?
>
> --rick
>
>
>
I have a similar but probably unrelated problem: Every once i a while,
without any apparent reason, the monitor blacks out for a couple of
seconds (as if I had turned it off) and then comes back. I've never
notice that before installing FC3.
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