goldenboy
November 3rd, 2008, 09:09 AM
Hi,
I was pretty excited by the end of last week to get the first (k)ubuntu release with "official" KDE4 support installed. But successful installation was followed by great frustration:
On my Dell Vostro 1500 KDE4 causes the whole system to freeze!! Till now I experienced two different kind of system crashs with KDE4 the first one causes the system to go to Text mode with the whole screen covered by some orange field with blinking signs in them. The other kind of freeze caused the caps lock and scroll lock light of the laptop to blink. In both cases the system does not react to any action (other than pressing the power button for more than 5 seconds...) any more.
While I experienced the second kind of freeze one time only, the first one comes up after round about 15 minutes even if I did nothing more than logging in.
As mentioned in the thread's topic this happens on my Vostro 1500 with the recommended restricted NVidia driver enabled. I already did an "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" which fetched and installed a new kernel version but did not solve the error :-(
Has anybody similar problems or perhaps even a solution??
Best regards.
I was pretty excited by the end of last week to get the first (k)ubuntu release with "official" KDE4 support installed. But successful installation was followed by great frustration:
On my Dell Vostro 1500 KDE4 causes the whole system to freeze!! Till now I experienced two different kind of system crashs with KDE4 the first one causes the system to go to Text mode with the whole screen covered by some orange field with blinking signs in them. The other kind of freeze caused the caps lock and scroll lock light of the laptop to blink. In both cases the system does not react to any action (other than pressing the power button for more than 5 seconds...) any more.
While I experienced the second kind of freeze one time only, the first one comes up after round about 15 minutes even if I did nothing more than logging in.
As mentioned in the thread's topic this happens on my Vostro 1500 with the recommended restricted NVidia driver enabled. I already did an "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" which fetched and installed a new kernel version but did not solve the error :-(
Has anybody similar problems or perhaps even a solution??
Best regards.