From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QdzpL-0005bo-VW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 07:13:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3B0F521C076; Tue, 5 Jul 2011 07:12:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0775021C076 for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2011 07:12:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyg8 with SMTP id 8so2779095gyg.40 for ; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:12:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=4kul+eHL3F5E2YZxQJH3i4qW+bccJW5ek6G8560y9Pc=; b=VyPl8K9wJWxsRrxyOHjeGehYKms76bZotMHYvyr29W7NGy5vG1t4O93XdYeuR3K4+B Hz71ydB39P/JhCm4sgEe5W0UALTWN509iSaepjZc5fxxNdijlB1dph6Oa9s+O/VPzXPz sMSwzxAQLGWx1/2GiuEnxsc8FGNsnMQv2hb9s= Received: by 10.101.179.7 with SMTP id g7mr5697296anp.102.1309849944392; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:12:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-129-33.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.129.33]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 6sm4443359anu.5.2011.07.05.00.12.22 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:12:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E12B955.2070009@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 02:12:21 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110606 Gentoo/2.0.14-r1 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups. References: <4E11EEF3.70804@gmail.com> <4E120CF8.7030107@gmail.com> <4E124362.8080702@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 762d4294b36d4c907d24a2075cbd876f Jes=C3=BAs J. Guerrero Botella wrote: > 2011/7/5 Dale: > =20 >> Jes=C3=BAs J. Guerrero Botella wrote: >> =20 >>> 2011/7/4 Dale: >>> >>> =20 >>>> I don't think I am logged in long enough to change the settings. I = may >>>> try >>>> my test user but I think a file got corrupted or something. I did h= ave a >>>> power failure the other day and the relay on my UPS was not quite fa= st >>>> enough. I think the contacts may need some cleaning. My UPS does s= ome >>>> odd >>>> things at times. I need a new one but they are pricey. I had forgo= t >>>> about >>>> the power failure issue. That has lead me down a different path now= . >>>> >>>> =20 >>> You don't need much time. The default shortcut to disable compositing >>> in kde is shift+alt+f12 >>> >>> You can try the vesa driver, or any alternative that will work with >>> your card, as well. >>> >>> I also had the usb issue that others said above, with previous kernel >>> versions. I haven't seen it lately though, with 2.6.39.x. >>> >>> >>> =20 >> I may try that if this re-emerge doesn't help any. It doesn't like mu= ch. I >> just hope all the thunder I keep hearing will not force me to shutdown= my >> rig. I think Mother Nature is hungry since the tummy is growling a lo= t. :/ >> >> Hmmm, I use Nvidia for my drivers. I don't even know if vesa is on he= re or >> not. I might add that Fluxbox has been working. It even plays videos= fine. >> I'm not sure this is a video driver problem, not yet anyway. >> =20 > There's one very important difference and it relates to all the post > I've written in this thread: compositing. Fluxbox doesn't use that. > > You will need to start trying something sooner or later, if you > discard problems like that without any further looking you might not > find the problem ever. > > =20 I tried it. It still did the same thing. It did make things look=20 different tho. Sort of made it look funny in a way. That would be=20 funny as in strange. >> I been using 2.6.38 for a while. I seem to have missed the USB bug. = I >> don't have much that uses it except for my printer and my camera. I d= on't >> even have my printer hooked up most of them time. Maybe I do have som= e good >> luck after all. o_O >> =20 > A lot of people were hit by a nasty bug that hard locked the pc when > plugging in usb storage devices. Your camera would fit that category. > I remember a thread in the forum where most users affected by this had > a similar motherboard and chipset. > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-882390-highlight-.html > > There's been some noise about this in many places, not just that > thread. So you might want to take a look at it if you can't solve your > problem recompiling the tray app. > > =20 I may have found the problem. It appears openldap has a issue which=20 effects some KDE packages as well. Started a fresh thread for that one. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)