KDE locking the whole box on SuSE 9.1

[liste at hgfelger.de]

I had problems... with the list - it sayed, that kde is not known by 
mail.kde.org...
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 hgfelger at hgfelger.de wrote:

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> Salut Basil,
> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Basil Fowler wrote:
>> I too have had the same trouble, usually when switching displays.  I have
>> encountered this phenomenon on SuSE 8.0 and Mandrake 9.2. It is true that 
>> the
>> X server spins and locks up the CPU. I suspected the nVidia driver as the
>> cause.
>
> With the nvidia driver you may want to check to not use the
>  Option    "RenderAccel"
> in your /etc/X11/XF86Config. With my nVidia 2Go it locked up the machine, 
> when I open a special menu of OpenOffice. Though it is no problem in alldays 
> work, I disabled it anyway.
> This is no solution for Rikard, as this won't lock up the networkcard, only 
> the X-server (incl keyboard/mouse).
>
> Rikard, did you consider a serial-console for debugging... to look out for an 
> Oops?
>
> Cheers
>  hartwig felger
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