Dale wrote:
Let me add some more confusion. I'm in KDE right now. I took the
sides off and blew out a VERY little bit of dust and replugged things,
video card, mobo power cables and such as that. I also booted to the
newly created .kde directory instead of my old one. This is the old
install tho. I logged in with nothing running, blank session, and
then took a nap. I got up a few minutes ago and KDE is still
running. I opened Kpat, card game, and played a little of it. After
a few minutes, I opened Seamonkey and am typing as you can see. Same
kernel, same nvidia, same packages and same hardware.
I did notice something a bit ago but have not posted since I noticed
it. It seems to crash when I open Konsole as root. I have my menu
set up to run it as root and that is where I do my sync and updates.
As soon as the window pops up, my mouse pointer freezes. I thought it
was a coincidence until now. After I send this reply, I'm going to
open Konsole and nothing else. I want to see if it does it again.
Since it has been running this long with Konsole closed, it would be
odd if it fails when I open that up here shortly.
I have tried to eliminate things one by one. I tried a different
kernel before I ever posted anything but I'm not sure I mentioned it.
Doing that is almost like breathing. If I run into issues, I try a
old kernel first. I have also tried both nvidia drivers that are in
portage with a few different kernels. As mentioned, I also tried a
fresh install as well. This makes me question hardware but since
everything has to work together, who knows where to start. Could it
be the extra ram that Konsole accesses? Could it be a bad instruction
that the CPU doesn't like? Could it be the video card trying to
redraw the screen? Lots of questions with few answers.
Well, I'm going to send this then open Konsole. See if it locks up
again.
Dale
:-) :-)
I forgot to answer one question you had. Yes, this is my new rig that
was built a while back.
As I was suspecting, I opened Konsole after sending the last message and
it locked up real good. I did manage to get the SysReq keys to work
tho. I opened Konsole from the menu, the password window popped up and
I typed in my root password. After that, the Konsole window popped up
and as soon as I touched the mouse, lock up.
After I rebooted and logged in, I wanted to see if it could be a bad
memory issue or even the video card itself. I opened a HD video,
Asteroid Galaxy Tour, and played it back to back. It never missed a
beat. I'm going to avoid Konsole and see what all else I can open until
it fails again. I'll post back what happens.
Any of you gurus figure out why my system hates to open Konsole as
root? I might add, I used konsole from inside Fluxbox with no problems.
Dale
:-) :-)
