I have a new Suse 11.4 installation and run KDE. When running something
where I type in stuff (be it the console, Libre Office, or a news group posting),
after I type a few characters, the cursor goes blank and nothing happens.
It seems some process is stealing the input buffer. To proceed, I have to
click on the screen with the mouse, and I get a few more characters.
What can this be due to?
On 08/30/2011 10:06 AM, dieterhansbritz wrote:
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> What can this be due to?
lots of things–what else is running? a torrent? a desktop indexer?
something in WINE? a browser with Flash pumping video? what?
open a copy of top in a konsole, and watch to see what is stealing your
cycles…
and, it could easily be just a need to install the correct video driver
for your graphics, see http://tinyurl.com/37v9y7m
could also be a faulty install…you say your 11.4 is “new”…but is it
‘new’ laid in over a previously existing openSUSE or other distro? did
you format install? did you save an old /home with all its config files?
maybe you have a faulty install due to broken install media, did you do
this http://tinyurl.com/3qde66h
or, maybe you have corrupted your system by installing conflicting
versions…like, have you installed any packages from any repo with any
of these in their name: factory, unstable, playground, or tumbleweed?
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DD
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