[aclug-L] Re: KDE Lock-up & PPA Fail

[Craig Terhune <craigter@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know if this is your problem or not, but KDE will hang upon exiting if
you sound is enabled.

On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, you wrote:

> Tried RedHat 6.0 last week at home. I liked the multiple window managers but
> COL 2.3 with its easy setup and tweaking had already spoiled me. So I
> deleted RedHat and reinstalled 2.3 but forgot that Lizard doesn't initialize
> the swap space. Took care of that. Then I had 3 fairly serious problems at
> random intervals.
> 
> KDE locked-up on me twice. Once I was able to recover with Ctrl-Alt-Bkspc.
> Another time when it dropped me down to KDM, the screen was blank. I used
> Ctrl-Alt-F1 and was back to a Level 3 log-in. The last lock-up occurred with
> Netscape 4.61 (whatever ships with COL 2.3.) I was waiting for a web page to
> load when the lock-up occurred. I was forced to power-down to get out of
> that one. Any ideas? Spec's below:
> 
> Distro: COL 2.3
> RAM 48 MB
> CPU: Cyrix 166 MHz
> Linux Native: 2044 MB
> Linux Swap: 98 MB
> Video Card: STB Nitro 3D (4 MB)
> X-Server: SVGA
> Monitor: CTX VL700
> Resolution: 1024x768 @ thousands of colors
> KDE 1.1.1 (with Theme Manager)
> 
> My second problem is with PPA. It shows Fail during the initial boot. It is
> on LPT2 but the printer is on LPT1. I read somewhere that there is a config
> file and the line with PPA has to be inserted prior to LPD. I can load and
> mount through a terminal window. Any thoughts or solutions?
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> David Spurlock
> Senior Technician 
> Interex/XLR8 Tech Support
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