kde problems

[kungfooya]

I am having some problems with kde lately, and I think opera may be the cause? When

online I use opera 7.54 as my browser/email. While browsing, at random points, kde will

crash at my screen will blackout, and my xserver and kde will restart. Could opera cause

kde to crash like this? I changed all the default fonts in opera to the helvetica-adobe font.

Could it be something else that is causing this? Is there a log file that wouls show why this

crashes? Tonight it went down 3 times, and its getting to be a real pain. Thanks for any

advice.

 

Jason

[VeeDubb]

Have yo noticed this happening with any other programs or at certain sites (like mayber some site you go to runs some script Opera doesn't like)

 

Also, and I know this is a long shot, I have had issues in the past, where a particular nvidia driver and a particular program simply didn't play nice. The example that comes to mind is the version of mozilla that came out with mandrake 9.2, and whatever version of the nvidia driver was newest when that came out. Once they gt updated, I had no more problems.

 

I don't have any explanation for that, and very few people have reported similar experiences, but you never know. So, you might want to try rolling back your nvidia driver to an older version, or updating it to a newer version if there is one.

[chris z]

it could be the Helvetica-Adobe fonts causing the XFont Server to crash. try changing the Opera fonts to something different/more standard & see if the crashes continue. if not, problem solved. if they do continue with normal fonts, then i'm at a loss right. i use Opera 7.54 with no problems.

 

Chris

[kungfooya]

Well, its happened again. This time i was adding songs to my playlist in amarok and it

went down. Also, I am using opera 7.51, and switched the fonts to the standard font

that mandrake usaes on the desktop. Awhile ago i read somewhere that installing font

from windows caused problems in kde, which I have installed. Has anyone else heard

this? I guess I'll have to uninstall them, but I don't think any of them are being used.

Oh, I am using the latest nvidia drivers. Thanks for the replies.

 

jason

[chris z]

hmmm......

 

it could be the Nvidia drivers causing the problem. when you say X crashes & KDE restarts, do you mean you have to relogin to KDE, or the screen just goes black for a few seconds & a mouse or keyboard movement brings it all back? if it's the latter, i had that problem with Nvidia drivers a while back. i added the NvAGP option to my xorg (or XFree, whichever the case may be) file & it fixed it. if you don't have this already, try adding the following to your xorg/xf86config-4 file(s) under the "device" section..........

 

Section "Device"

    Identifier "device1"

    VendorName "NVidia"

    BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)"

    Driver "nvidia"

    Option "DPMS"

    Option "NvAGP" "3"

    Option "NoLogo" "1"

EndSection

 

the "3" option tells it to try kernel AGP first, then Nvidia AGP if that fails. other optins you could use are........

 

"0" (uses no agp support)

"1" (uses nvidia agpart only)

"2" (tries kernel agpart only)

 

if you do this, you don't need to kill X to make the edit. just edit the appropriate file with any text editor. you must reboot for the settings to take effect.

 

Chris

[kungfooya]

When it crashes, the screen goes black, the nvidia screen shows up

and then kde starts up. I never have to login at any point. I will try

your suggestions out and see if that makes a difference. Thanks

for the tips.

 

 

Jason