Hi All, I've been driven to posting this message by various problems with my debian kde installation that I hoped would go away but refuse to do so.
I'm running an apt-get updated and upgraded testing system, on an athlon 1.2 with 512mb, radeon card and scsi. I'm using 2.4.18 kernel and I've managed to get radeon support working properly. I first installed debian around January 2002, and soon got kde 2.2 up and running. Everything seemed stable for a while until the following problems began to present themselves. General instability Many of the main KDE applications (especially konqueror) have begun to hang regularly, especially when opening or saving files, or changing the settings. The crash usually freezes the screen completely, and I rarely get to see the 'kde crash' screen. Long pauses If I try to launch an application after kde has been up and running for more than a few minutes I get a pause of up to ten minutes before the application actually launches. All other loaded applications function fine during this time. Other If I do get a crash similar to that outlined above and manage to succesfully logout, I can't log back in again as the login process stops at 'starting window manager'. If anybody out there can help me with any of this I would be very grateful. I'm trying to evangelise debian and linux to my friends, but it's difficult with such an unstable desktop. What am I doing wrong? Could anybody point me to a better / more stable desktop? Thanks in advance, Rob -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "I don't mean to sound cold or cruel or vicious, but I am, so that's just the way it comes out" Bill Hicks RIP ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
