"frozon" Gnome, Sled 10.1

Hello all!!

I've just installed SLED 10.1 (was given away free on Linux Format's cover DVD this month) and I'm having a few niggling little problems.

The install went fine, everything installed as it should do, no errors and nothing untoward noticable upon first boot into SuSE.

However, I'm having a few problems with Gnome (don't know if KDE is the same as I haven't tried it yet). I've been trying to have a look at XGL (sigh...) I can enable Desktop Effects just fine, GDM and Gnome restart just fine but then after a couple of seconds the desktop freezes. I can still move the mouse pointer and I can switch to, and use, the CLI and I can also do a hard restart of X (Alt - Ctrl - Backspace) but nothing I click on responds and no keyboard shortcuts work when I'm in Gnome. I've followed all the advice I can find about getting XGL running and I also spotted this post here that mentioned the nvidia opengl drivers in 10.1 being somewhat unstable. I followed the advice and installed nvclock to adjust the clock timing of the card, underclocking it somewhat. I've also tried running XGL in various different compatible resolutions but still get the same result.

Also, another problem I'm having, regardless of running in XGL or not, is that my keyboard is somewhat over-responsive. When logging in, I regularly end up identifying myself as ddaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnn even though I've only pressed the keys once. Same goes for passwords and various different times when generally running the machine (browsing, typing in X Terminal, etc). What gives?

Here's a basic rundown on the specs of my machine. Cheers....

AMD X2 4200+
2g RAM (DDR 400)
80g IDE HDD
XFX GeForce 7800GS

I managed to get a little bit further last night. I switched the video card from 8x AGP to 4x and did a reinstall of SLED as I'd heard some of the updates can cause problems.

I still encountered the keystroke repeat problem I was having before, even during the installation process when I was entering my registration details on the Novell site via the browser that it springs open.

Upon starting SLED, I went straight to the Desktop Effects option in Control Center, installed the nVidia drivers and the additional components that it was listing as needed (without applying any other patches to the system), restarted as instructed them activated Desktop Effects, logged out and back in and managed to get a good minute or so viewing the splendid effects such as Cube, etc, before X gave up the ghost once more.

I may give up on XGL until I know for certain what's causing this issue. Looking around various forums, I'm not alone. Some people are reporting that they had it working just fine until that latest updates, others are reporting the same issues as myself right off the bat.

I managed to get a little bit further last night. I switched the video card from 8x AGP to 4x and did a reinstall of SLED as I'd heard some of the updates can cause problems.

I still encountered the keystroke repeat problem I was having before, even during the installation process when I was entering my registration details on the Novell site via the browser that it springs open.

Upon starting SLED, I went straight to the Desktop Effects option in Control Center, installed the nVidia drivers and the additional components that it was listing as needed (without applying any other patches to the system), restarted as instructed them activated Desktop Effects, logged out and back in and managed to get a good minute or so viewing the splendid effects such as Cube, etc, before X gave up the ghost once more.

I may give up on XGL until I know for certain what's causing this issue. Looking around various forums, I'm not alone. Some people are reporting that they had it working just fine until that latest updates, others are reporting the same issues as myself right off the bat.
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Ah, almost a snap!

I too have installed 10.1 from the LXF DVD and running XGL (drool).

But I too suffer from the problem where the keyboard stops responding and the mouse pointer can be moved but cannot click on anything, any running processes continue to run though. Also decorations go AWOL and cannot be restored by restarting etc. (I'd love to know how to reset via the cmd line for resetting, as I've ended up doing complete re-installs <sigh>).

I think the problem stems from installing the 32 updates after adding the packman repository to get mp3 playback in Amarok. Have you done this also?

May not be relevant but you could take a look at this:

http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?showto...&hl=watagan

Had the same symptoms (frozen mouse and kbd, system still running) a while back.

Good luck...