David Talkington, On Thursday 07 February 2002 09:11, you said something about: > Anyone have experience with a heavy wm like KDE on a box like this > one? The GX115/150 is a disposable low-profile business desktop, > sells for dirt cheap. They're nice little fleet boxes, pretty > reliable, but I've begun to suspect that Dell's cutting corners pretty > aggressively in these things to keep the price down. > > I've just installed RH7.2 on one of these, and have found that the > machine is prone to hard-locking at random intervals. I'm talking > belly-up here - no keyboard or mouse response, no way to kill the X > server, and no network response either. It only happens when KDE is > in use -- never with Gnome, and never with Microsoft Windows, so far. > KDE is pretty demanding, so I'm not prepared to blame it; I think this > suggests exposure of a hardware weakness. > > I've just rebuilt it (again), this time without using the > i686-optimized kernel and glibc, which I'd been installing. We'll see > how it goes. Meanwhile, I'd be interested in others' experiences with > this type of box. >
Not particular to that exact hardware and may not even apply at all, but I've found that when KDE causes strange lock-ups and nothing else does (windows, Gnome, etc.) that it is usually sound related. Perhaps try (if you even have a soundcard) disabling sound altogether and see if it helps. Or wait for more specific advise. ;) -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
