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Hi,

How can I recover from a system lockup?

According to the KDE Help center:
1. From the locked up screen: CTRL + Alt + Esc (to bring up a login screen)
2. ps -aux | more (to list running processes)
3. kill -9 pid
4. CTRL + ALt F7 (to switch back to the locked up desktop to see if it has been fixed)

Although the instructions mention several likely programs to try "killing" I have yet to successfully recover...

I have:
* Suse 9 with YOU updates (whatever these are)
* Athlon 600 with .5Gb RAM
* A monitor that can do 30-70Hz (and a 32Mb riva tnt 2 graphics card)

There are several games that come with the Suse distribution that cause an out of frequency problem (video mode tried to set at 28Kz ie. out of range)

In particular Maelstrom cause this problem 100% of the time. I cannot recover from the garbled display.
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My second question is that I am finding Linux pretty unstable (though Windows 2000 and XP was pretty solid running on the same hardware). Some applications that ship with Suse seem to crash on a regular basis (a minority granted and mostly 3d games I think) sometimes taking the machine down with them. Is this to be expected? Everyone says how stable Linux is, but my impressions so far are that while showing potential it doesn't quite work (certainly not in the league of Win XP and 2000 which simply work straight out of the box in my experience).

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Also Linux is MUCH slower than Win XP eg. opening Open Office, or even just opening a browser window. This despite an update optimised for the Athlon (I have tried Mandrake 9.2 and Red Hat as well and they are similarly slow).

Is this the exerience of others?javascript:emoticon(':roll:')
Cheers
Stuart


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Thanks tuxnet,

Is there an easy way to resubmit to the graphics forum (including threads so far)?

The graphics config does appear to be the problem, but I am unable to fix it.

The specs for my monitor are Horiz freq: 30-70 and Vert freq: 50-110

My monitor is not listed so I have chosen Vesa 1024x768 @ 60Hz (the resolution that I like to work at and what my monitor is capable of)

But... in Sax2 the Horiz freq displays at 28-70 rather than 30-70. I think that's my problem (because this is also the resolution that some 3D games try to use for reasons best known to themselves).

Changing it makes no difference. When I "finalize" and eventually log out (so I can start a new KDE session reflecting the monitor frequency changes) the frequency still appears at 28 when I go back in to Sax2 to check.

:cry:

How do I change file permissions so that I can edit this file?

Is it usig a command called chmod?

When I installed Suse I selected my graphics card from the list. I am pretty sure it downloaded THE Nvidia driver (becuase i had to accept a license agreement I think).

Can I double check without reinstalling? (The installation procedure looks complicated to me http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-532

OK, thanks guys problem seems solved.

After someone told me I needed to login as root (or similar) to change the config file (I was unable to save changes until someone pointed this out).

Maelstrom runs fine now.