Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:50:11 +1000 From: "Gemma Fletcher" <slvhwke@optusnet.com.au> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: jackbarnett@gmail.com Subject: Re: KDE 3.5 Crashing Message-ID: <002301c7b22d$522f1c00$a3fd31d2@daisy> References: <200706152001.37198.slvhwke@optusnet.com.au><20070619035740.GC797@triptrop.wlan.in.nicta.com.au> <46775D57.2020506@gmail.com>
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> Timothy Bourke wrote: > > On Jun 15 at 20:01 +1000, Gemma Fletcher wrote: > > > Installed BSD 6.2 a few days ago and am totally new to it all. I installed > KDE 3.5 and it was working nicely until it just....stopped. > > No obvious crash - it just froze. Had to reboot the system with the reset > button as no other method was working. > > > [...] > > Are you using dial-up with kppp? > > I recently saw a freeze-then-reboot under KDE 3.5 which was fixed by > using ppp (user-mode) rather than kppp (kernel-mode) for dial-up. > > Tim. > > > > Next time instead of a reboot, try Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. that should > try a shutdown of the X server ... might save you a hard reboot :) > Also are you sure it's KDE? Could it be a weird video driver? Does > it happen with other WMs? Ok haven't had a chance to look at anything today (buying a new car yay me!) but just to quickly answer the above. * I'm not using dial-up at all. Cable ftw! * I tried the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, but my keyboard doesn't seem to respond at all. It's seems about as futile as flogging a dead horse. I haven't tried any other WMs -- I went with KDE since that was the only one I had ever heard of and it had a nice install section in the handbook about it :) Could anyone suggest perhaps a different one I could try? Either way - I'll be following a the suggestions in a few previous emails about trying to isolate the problem and see where I end up.
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