Re: living with freebsd

2008-05-05 Thread Gemma Fletcher
regarding the above depending on whether it is for a server or a desktop? I don't bother with a GUI for a server and I still stick with my 99% ports. For my home desktop I use KDE which I start from the console. It's dual booted with XP atm since I can't make WoW play through FreeBSD. :P -- Gemma

RE: KDE 3.5 Crashing

2007-07-17 Thread Gemma Fletcher
Gemma Fletcher wrote: I apologize in advance if this advice is too rudimentary. Rudimentry is good :) I am a BSD noob :D Sounds more like hardware. You did not say how you tested your memory. If you did not use Memtest86, get and run that. Also run fsck manually. I used Memtest and I

Fw: KDE 3.5 Crashing(Solved)

2007-06-20 Thread Gemma Fletcher
Thanks everyone for their help! Final result was my video card. I had a power surge a few weeks ago - and while I have a surge protector it stilled messed my card up a bit. So periodically the card would die and so would the system. Pulled it out and used the onboard and problem solvered.

Re: KDE 3.5 Crashing

2007-06-18 Thread Gemma Fletcher
I apologize in advance if this advice is too rudimentary. Rudimentry is good :) I am a BSD noob :D Sounds more like hardware. You did not say how you tested your memory. If you did not use Memtest86, get and run that. Also run fsck manually. I used Memtest and I have had already run fsck since

Re: KDE 3.5 Crashing

2007-06-18 Thread Gemma Fletcher
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 juststopped. No obvious crash - it just froze. Had to reboot the system with the reset

Re: KDE 3.5 Crashing

2007-06-18 Thread Gemma Fletcher
Hello Gemma, Hello Nikola Although it really looks like hardware, you can also do this to be 100% sure it isn't software related: (1) Had you used that computer before you have installed FreeBSD? It would be a nice idea to post here the output of your 'dmesg' or /var/log/messages.

Re: KDE 3.5 Crashing

2007-06-16 Thread Gemma Fletcher
On Friday 15 June 2007 21:41, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Friday, June 15, 2007 a las 09:33:27PM +1000, Gemma Fletcher escribió: Can you check if only X or KDE is frozen, or the system at all? Try to connect from some other host on the network. Try to do some RAM testing as well

Re: KDE 3.5 Crashing

2007-06-16 Thread Gemma Fletcher
On Saturday 16 June 2007 18:54, Matthias Apitz wrote: Can you check if only X or KDE is frozen, or the system at all? Try to connect from some other host on the network. Try to do some RAM testing as well. Ok my RAM is fine and dandy. I'm not sure how to check to see if only KDE is

KDE 3.5 Crashing

2007-06-16 Thread Gemma Fletcher
Hi list :) 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 juststopped. No obvious crash - it just froze. Had to reboot the system with the reset button as no other method was working. So I thought it might be my

KDE 3.5 Crashing

2007-06-15 Thread Gemma Fletcher
Edit: Resending as having problems with my mail. If it pops up twice then apologies :) Hi list :) 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 juststopped. No obvious crash - it just froze. Had to reboot the