Re: How To Get libm.so.4?

check for libm.so.5 in /lib. do a softlink of libm.so.4 pointing to libm.so.5 I guess this should fix your issue. - moin On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 12:49:26PM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I am attempting to install a web analysis tool named "Urchin" from > Google. Installation instructi

Re: How To Get libm.so.4?

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 05:56:13PM +0530, Shakul M Hameed wrote: > check for libm.so.5 in /lib. > do a softlink of libm.so.4 pointing to libm.so.5 > I guess this should fix your issue. **DO NOT** do this. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Netwo

Re: uptime 2 years!

Zbigniew Szalbot: 2008/10/9 Jon Radel: Dear Mr. Marshall: I'm terribly sorry that our representatives in charge of answering emails have been rude to you. I've just fired the lot of them, particularly as we can't afford to keep then on anymore seeing as how your generous donations are now in j

Re: How To Get libm.so.4?

I think its not a very bad idea, unless your app is dependent on a routine which is deprecated and not avaiable in the latest version of library. For testing purpose this should be ok. - moin On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:12:55AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On

Re: How To Get libm.so.4?

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 06:40:22PM +0530, Shakul M Hameed wrote: > I think its not a very bad idea, unless your app is dependent on a routine > which is deprecated and > not avaiable in the latest version of library. For testing purpose this > should be ok. I disagree. It _is_ a bad idea. The

Re: How To Get libm.so.4?

Thanks, Jeremy. For letting me know the dis-advantages softlinking in long run. On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:40:46AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 06:40:22PM +0530, Shakul M Hameed wrote: > > I think its not a very bad idea, unless your app is dependent on a routine >

RE: uptime 2 years!

Odhiambo, you hit the nail on the head. Glad to see you caught on. Chad, please google up the definition of "passive-agressive" behavior and look at yourself in a mirror. If you don't get it, reread the definition and look in the mirror again. And in the future, please don't engage in it. You

Re: 7.1 hangs, shutdown terminated

Johan Hendriks írta: If find / -sx is running and is consuming all CPU, what is the value of vfs.ufs.dirhash_mem: # sysctl -a | grep dirhash shopzeus# sysctl -a | grep dirhash vfs.ufs.dirhash_docheck: 0 vfs.ufs.dirhash_mem: 2095818 vfs.ufs.dirhash_maxmem: 2097152 vfs.ufs.dirhash_minsize: 25

RE: 7.1 hangs, shutdown terminated

>Johan Hendriks írta: >> If find / -sx is running and is consuming all CPU, what is the value of >> >vfs.ufs.dirhash_mem: >> >> # sysctl -a | grep dirhash >> >shopzeus# sysctl -a | grep dirhash >vfs.ufs.dirhash_docheck: 0 >vfs.ufs.dirhash_mem: 2095818 >vfs.ufs.dirhash_maxmem: 2097152 >vfs.uf

RE: cannot install from existing UFS thumb drive with sysinstall

There is a outstanding PR on sysinstall from usb flash drive which is now over a year old. The sysinstall install program needs to be updated to use usb drives as the source of the install media. You could always edit the sysinstall program source code and make a patch to allow usb sysinstall media

Re: 7.1 hangs, shutdown terminated

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:40:01AM +0200, Laszlo Nagy wrote: > Hi, > > A computer hangs every day in the morning at a specific time, between 8 > AM and 9 AM. We can ping it. Apparently the console works, also gdm > works on it, but we are not able to login at all. ssh accepts > connections,

Re: What is a recommended soundcard for FreeBSD?

Aniruddha wrote: On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 23:46 +0200, Patrick Lamaizière wrote: Le Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:42:43 +0200, Aniruddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : Because of the problems with my onboard Intel HDA audio chip I plan to buy a soundcard that is supported by FreeBSD. There i

7.1 hangs, shutdown terminated

Hi, A computer hangs every day in the morning at a specific time, between 8 AM and 9 AM. We can ping it. Apparently the console works, also gdm works on it, but we are not able to login at all. ssh accepts connections, but the authentication does not continue (e.g. ssh client waits for the s

Re: Sysinstall

On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 08:32:50PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > I have the following prblem with sysinstall: when I run sysinstall inside > an xterm I find it very difficult to read the yellow font on the gray > background, which appears very light on my laptop LCD and also on a

Re: 7.1 hangs, shutdown terminated

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:13:00AM +0200, Laszlo Nagy wrote: > Johan Hendriks írta: >> If find / -sx is running and is consuming all CPU, what is the value of >> vfs.ufs.dirhash_mem: >> >> # sysctl -a | grep dirhash >> > shopzeus# sysctl -a | grep dirhash > vfs.ufs.dirhash_docheck: 0 > vfs.ufs

Re: 7.1 hangs, shutdown terminated

This could be a periodic job (since you said this happens daily) which runs early in the morning (2-3am?) and for some reason isn't finishing in a timely manner. You haven't provided any actual ps -auxwww data, so we can't easily discern if it's a periodic job or something amiss on your sys

RE: Subject: Xorg/kde startup errors

"Message: 13 Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:16:52 +0800 From: "FBSD1" Subject: Xorg/kde startup errors To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG" Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I am new user to xorg/kde. Installed xorg and kde using port system. Followed instructions in handbook

Re: has anyone actually received a bsdmag ? -- SOLVED

On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 11:42 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 08:43:29AM -0500, Andrew Gould wrote: > > > > The BSDMag website mentioned that it would be available at Barnes & Noble. > > I couldn't find it there; but I found it at Borders bookstores. > > I've seen a copy at Barn

Re: [SOLVED] Re: 7.1 hangs, shutdown terminated

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:43:39AM +0200, Laszlo Nagy wrote: > If find / -sx is running and is consuming all CPU, what is the value of vfs.ufs.dirhash_mem: # sysctl -a | grep dirhash >>> shopzeus# sysctl -a | grep dirhash >>> vfs.ufs.dirhash_docheck: 0 >>> vfs.uf

Re: [SOLVED] Re: 7.1 hangs, shutdown terminated

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 01:07:43PM +0200, Laszlo Nagy wrote: > >> Firstly, I see a periodic(8) job that DOES use find -sx, which means >> your attempt to track it down was faulty, and your syntax should have >> been "find -sx /" not "find / -sx". See here: >> >> /etc/periodic/security/100.chksetui

Re: [SOLVED] Re: 7.1 hangs, shutdown terminated

Firstly, I see a periodic(8) job that DOES use find -sx, which means your attempt to track it down was faulty, and your syntax should have been "find -sx /" not "find / -sx". See here: /etc/periodic/security/100.chksetuid: find -sx $MP /dev/null -type f \ Thanks for clearing that out. :-)

Re: Wireless Card - EDIMAX EW-7728In

On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 22:00 -0400, Justin Mazzi wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know if FreeBSD has support for this card? I did some > searching around and looks like this card is based on the RALink > RT2860 chip. OpenBSD has drivers listed for it on this page: > > http://www.openbsd.org.ua/i3

Re: [SOLVED] Re: 7.1 hangs, shutdown terminated

Thank you very much! Probably you are right. Our users use shared IMAP folders and sometimes they keep ten thousands of messages in one folder. I have increased dirhash_maxmem to 64MB and see what happens. Unfortunately, I cannot play with the hardware because it is in a server park, and

Re: cannot install from existing UFS thumb drive with sysinstall

Is there no one out there that can help? I've dug into NFS a little more and that does not appear to support mounting a local filesystem under sysinstall. In the following thread, Richard Tobin makes an assertion that suggests that I might be able to mount my thumb drive's existing UFS partit

RE: 7.1 hangs, shutdown terminated

If find / -sx is running and is consuming all CPU, what is the value of vfs.ufs.dirhash_mem: # sysctl -a | grep dirhash Make sure vfs.ufs.dirhash_mem: is not close to vfs.ufs.dirhash_maxmem: Regards, Johan Hendriks Double -L Automatisering No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by A

[SOLVED] Re: 7.1 hangs, shutdown terminated

If find / -sx is running and is consuming all CPU, what is the value of vfs.ufs.dirhash_mem: # sysctl -a | grep dirhash shopzeus# sysctl -a | grep dirhash vfs.ufs.dirhash_docheck: 0 vfs.ufs.dirhash_mem: 2095818 vfs.ufs.dirhash_maxmem: 2097152 vfs.ufs.dirhash_minsize: 2560 Ma

Converting RSA to PKSC#15

Hi, I would like to install my own certificates for several APC UPS. I already generated the key file and the csr, got the csr signed and get a crt. But APC wants a file in format PKSC#15 that is bundled containing the key and the crt (and the ca ?). Anyway, they (APC) provide the tool to build

rc: not working as expected? (round 2)

(I mistakenly sent the last msg before finishing..) Or maybe an interpretation issue. I have a few startup scripts in rc.d and I am experiencing timing issues. i.e. I need xyz to start before abc. Within xyz I tried: # REQUIRE: abc This didn't work so I tried: 100.xyz 900.abc which doesn't a

Re: rc: not working as expected? (round 2)

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:19:21PM -0300, Paul Halliday wrote: > (I mistakenly sent the last msg before finishing..) > > Or maybe an interpretation issue. > > I have a few startup scripts in rc.d and I am experiencing timing > issues. i.e. I need xyz to start before abc. > > Within xyz I tried:

Re: rc: not working as expected? (round 2)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Halliday wrote: > (I mistakenly sent the last msg before finishing..) > > Or maybe an interpretation issue. > > I have a few startup scripts in rc.d and I am experiencing timing > issues. i.e. I need xyz to start before abc. > > Within xyz I tr

Re: Update System from 6.1 to last 6 Release with NOT generic Kernel...

2008/10/10 Agus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/10/9 Agus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> 2008/10/9 RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 19:08:42 -0300 >>> Agus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hi guys... Just wanted to check a few things before crapping my system..hehehe I am

rc: not working as expected?

Or maybe an interpretation issue. I have a few startup scripts in rc.d and I am experiencing timing issues. i.e. I need xyz to start before abc. Within xyz I tried: ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: rc: not working as expected? (round 2)

You can do a dry run as a non root user: $ rcorder /etc/rc.d/* /usr/local/etc/rc.d* 2>&1 | more ~BAS On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 12:19 -0300, Paul Halliday wrote: > (I mistakenly sent the last msg before finishing..) > > Or maybe an interpretation issue. > > I have a few startup scripts in rc.d and

Firewall and FreeBSD ports

I just set up a new server with a very restricted PF configuration. One problem: I can no longer install software with ports (i.e, the / usr/ports collection.) I have to disable PF to do so. Obviously not a great solution. Am I correct in guessing that ports uses FTP to grab source files f

Re: Firewall and FreeBSD ports

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:45:04PM -0400, John Almberg wrote: > I just set up a new server with a very restricted PF configuration. One > problem: I can no longer install software with ports (i.e, the / > usr/ports collection.) I have to disable PF to do so. Obviously not a > great solution. >

Re: cvsup.uk.freebsd.org down

Did it ever come back? Someone with good BGP views should probably put all of the CVS/FTP/Rsync mirrors in Nagios (with something reasonable like a 6 hour check interval) and send reports to freebsd-www@ or so. ~BAS On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Paul Macdonald wrote: I just noticed this cvs serve

Re: cvsup mirrors

Or...contact the maintainer: http://www.dslreports.com/profile/191119 $ host cvsup1.ca.FreeBSD.org cvsup1.ca.FreeBSD.org is an alias for less.cogeco.net. less.cogeco.net has address 24.226.6.67 http://less.cogeco.net/ Many broken URLS. ~BAS On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Michael P. Soulier wrote:

Re: core Dumb during CVSUP

use csup, but at this stage, i'll wait untill portupgrade has finished to see if anything changes in that reguards. Well, you could ktrace(8) the binary and/or rebuild it with debugging symbols and bt the coredump ~BAS ~BAS ___ freebsd-questions@fre

Check_CVSUp / PServer - Nagios Plugins?

Hey all: One of the big pitfalls of running a public CVS/CVSup/FTP mirror seems to be poor reporting on failed updates. I'd like add some Nagios monitoring to our project. For FTP and CVSUP rsyncs, I can have my cron(8)'d update scripts touch(1) a file if [ $? = 0 ]; then check them with li

Re: irq256 ????

irq22: pcm052848 3 irq23: uhci2 ehci1 1 0 cpu0: timer 33503897 1929 irq256: em042054 2 it's MSI interrupt ___ freebsd-questions@f

Re: Firewall and FreeBSD ports

On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:51:16 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:45:04PM -0400, John Almberg wrote: > > I just set up a new server with a very restricted PF configuration. > > One problem: I can no longer install software with ports (i.e, > > the / usr/por

Re: Firewall and FreeBSD ports

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 06:54:32PM +0100, RW wrote: > On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:51:16 -0700 > Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:45:04PM -0400, John Almberg wrote: > > > I just set up a new server with a very restricted PF configuration. > > > One problem: I c

gzipping multiple files w/o tarring

I'm sure this is easy but googling hasn't gotten me anywhere yet... I want to compress all the files in my directory that don't already have a .gz extension. I want them to be individual compressed files, not part of a single .tar.gz file. Can anyone point me to where I can find how to do th

Re: gzipping multiple files w/o tarring

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 02:49:44PM -0400, Joe Tseng wrote: > > I'm sure this is easy but googling hasn't gotten me anywhere yet... I want > to compress all the files in my directory that don't already have a .gz > extension. I want them to be individual compressed files, not part of a > singl

Re: gzipping multiple files w/o tarring

On October 10, 2008 02:49:44 pm Joe Tseng wrote: > I'm sure this is easy but googling hasn't gotten me anywhere yet... I want > to compress all the files in my directory that don't already have a .gz > extension. I want them to be individual compressed files, not part of a > single .tar.gz file.

libncurses.so.6 Not Found - How to Get 32 bit Version?

First, I must say I love the ports system!!! It keeps me from suffering as I am now. :) Anyway, I'm attempting to install a web log analysis software from Google named "Urchin". The installation docs say it's supported on FBSD 6.2+. As I am dedicating a machine to this software, I've perfo

Re: gzipping multiple files w/o tarring

"gzip *" will do what you want. When it encounters something that's already gzip'd, it will skip it, but will emit a warning that it's doing so. Otherwise, you could use something like: find -X . \! -name "*.tar.gz" -type f -maxdepth 1 | xargs gzip i don't understand the difference. .tar.gz

Re: Firewall and FreeBSD ports

problem: I can no longer install software with ports (i.e, the /usr/ports collection.) I have to disable PF to do so. Obviously not a great solution. Am I correct in guessing that ports uses FTP to grab source files from FTP or HTTP. if you have http proxy like squid in your network do expor

Re: cannot install from existing UFS thumb drive with sysinstall

FBSD1 wrote: There is a outstanding PR on sysinstall from usb flash drive which is now over a year old. The sysinstall install program needs to be updated to use usb drives as the source of the install media. You could always edit the sysinstall program source code and make a patch to allow usb s

Fwd: Firewall and FreeBSD ports

On Oct 10, 2008, at 2:41 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 06:54:32PM +0100, RW wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:51:16 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:45:04PM -0400, John Almberg wrote: I just set up a new server with a very restricte

Fwd: Firewall and FreeBSD ports

sh/bash: export FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=true Ah... because in passive mode, the client (my server) sets the data port, and my PF rules allow return data on the port used for the request. Okay... that makes sense, I think... (little by little, it sinks in...) -- John

Re: Firewall and FreeBSD ports

On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:41:40 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 06:54:32PM +0100, RW wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:51:16 -0700 > > Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > passive ftp has been the default for long time, fetch is called > > with th

Re: setkey panic freebsd7

sorry, /usr/local/sbin/setkey failed on parsing that specific add, not panic. no specific info, just say parse failed. maybe something is not supported ...? On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:46 AM, alan yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i wonder people ran into similar issue on setkey with freebsd7 that >

kernel: Approaching the limit on PV entries...

A web server with several jailed copies of Apache is having problems that seem to be caused by incorrect IPFW rules, but in the process of working on that, I find in the log the following repeated many times: Oct 8 23:29:50 spider kernel: Approaching the limit on PV entries, consider increasing e

Re: cvsup.uk.freebsd.org down

> Someone with good BGP views should probably put all of the CVS/FTP/Rsync > mirrors in Nagios (with something reasonable like a 6 hour check interval) > and send reports to freebsd-www@ or so. The closest thing we have on it is: http://www.mavetju.org/unix/freebsd-mirrors/ Edwin -- Edwin G

kwik question re virt websites...

Guys, When I restarted apache22, there was a warning that something was missing. It had nothing [ hopefully ] to do with the new virtual site I want to set up. Can anybody tell me what the following error is? I do have an index.html file in /usr/

Re: kwik question re virt websites...

On Oct 10, 2008, at 2:31 PM, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, When I restarted apache22, there was a warning that something was missing. It had nothing [ hopefully ] to do with the new virtual site I want to set up. Can anybody tell me what the following error

Re: gzipping multiple files w/o tarring

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 09:42:41PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >> "gzip *" will do what you want. >> >> When it encounters something that's already gzip'd, it will skip it, >> but will emit a warning that it's doing so. >> >> Otherwise, you could use something like: >> >> find -X . \! -name "*

Re: kwik question re virt websites...

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 03:08:48PM -0700, Fred Condo wrote: > > On Oct 10, 2008, at 2:31 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > Guys, > > > > When I restarted apache22, there was a warning that > > something was missing. It had nothing [ hopefully ] to > > do with the new virtual site I

an even dumber q: how do i get sage's ports-ypgrade working?

Late last December my small network began falling apart. Still not sure how, but a fellow from Dallas came to my rescue and from his home, slowly rebuilt and re-configured everything. E.g.: for one thing, where I hack sendmail working via various kludges, he

Re: an even dumber q: how do i get sage's ports-ypgrade working?

Are you referring to sysinstall? /usr/sbin/sysinstall In the older days it was under /stand if I'm correct If you are missing the ports you could also simply use ftp to transfer the tar.gz archive from ftp.freebsd.org or an alternative mirror... Regards, Tom Sent from my BlackBerry device on

Re: kernel: Approaching the limit on PV entries...

Bob Johnson wrote: A web server with several jailed copies of Apache is having problems that seem to be caused by incorrect IPFW rules, but in the process of working on that, I find in the log the following repeated many times: Oct 8 23:29:50 spider kernel: Approaching the limit on PV entries,

Re: Fwd: Firewall and FreeBSD ports

On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:16:29 -0400 John Almberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 10, 2008, at 2:41 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > >>> See the fetch(1) man page. Try this first: > >>> > >>> sh/bash: export FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=true > >>> csh: setenv FTP_PASSIVE_MODE true > > First off, this di

Re: Firewall and FreeBSD ports

sh/bash: export FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=true csh: setenv FTP_PASSIVE_MODE true First off, this did solve the problem. Thank you, Jeremy. Now, as to the why... That's odd, because if you are running 7.x with a default settings, FTP_PASSIVE_MODE should be irrelevant to fetching distfiles - even

Re: kernel: Approaching the limit on PV entries...

> > vm.pmap.pv_entry_count: 583006 > > vm.pmap.shpgperproc: 200 > > vm.pmap.pv_entry_max: 2243305 > > > > The system: > > FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p5 #0: Wed Oct 1 > > 07:51:58 UTC 2008 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > > > > Can someone b

proflibs

Can anyone explain what are the proflibs on the install media, and what they are for? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

dmesg: Invalid time in clock: check and reset the date

Hi, I've just installed FreeBSD 7.0 Release along with Windows XP on my PC. I found that when I set the clock to the correct time&date, next time I boot into FreeBSD it changes and reports the wrong time&date. Both BIOS and Windows reports the time correctly. dmesg shows the following message:

Need help installing on SATA

Does anyone know the magic incantation that will permit me to install FreeBSD on this new machine of mine (nVidia chipset, SATA1 disk controller)? I've been trying for a week or so now, with no luck. Just out of curiosity, I downloaded and ran Ubuntu 8.x, and it recognized all of my hardware

Re: Need help installing on SATA

Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: Does anyone know the magic incantation that will permit me to install FreeBSD on this new machine of mine (nVidia chipset, SATA1 disk controller)? I've been trying for a week or so now, with no luck. Just out of curiosity, I downloaded and ran Ubuntu 8.x, and it rec

freebsd7 & kde4 & performance

Hi, I'm a little bit disappointed with the performance of kde4 on freebsd7. I have Pentium M 2GHz, 1GB RAM, radeon x300, tried both, radeon and ati drivers, but kde4 is still so slow that I cannot work with it. Is it because of poor graphic card or driver itself? I'm looking forward to any suggest

Re: freebsd7 & kde4 & performance

Hi Michael, Unfortunetly I've been having the same difficulty with KDE4. I've tried using both the nv driver as well as nvidia. My hardware is intel core2 duo 1.8ghz, nvidia 8600 gs with 512 dedicated memory and 2gigs of system memory. I've tried using 7.0, 7.1 and 8.0(Current) with all malloc

Re: freebsd7 & kde4 & performance

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Michael, Unfortunetly I've been having the same difficulty with KDE4. I've tried using both the nv driver as well as nvidia. My hardware is intel core2 duo 1.8ghz, nvidia 8600 gs with 512 dedicated memory and 2gigs of system memory. I've tried using 7.0, 7.1 and 8.

Re: freebsd7 & kde4 & performance

Brian wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hi Michael, >> >> Unfortunetly I've been having the same difficulty with KDE4. I've >> tried using both the nv driver as well as nvidia. >> >> My hardware is intel core2 duo 1.8ghz, nvidia 8600 gs with 512 >> dedicated memory and 2gigs of system memory.