I have just installed 11.4 64 bits in a laptop and up dated to the latest versions on the standard repositories.
I am using KDE 4.
I have installed from the standard repositories all Nvidia drivers.
My laptop uses a Nvidia Gforce 8200 M.
My problem is that I have selected the flip switch effect for switching multiple windows.
When I do that the laptop almost always freezes the desktop, actually first there is a strange freeze when the desktop window on the front (the one switched to) appears out of focus and the desktop is frozen and some parts missing … (base bar example).
After some seconds the image focus normally and a message pop-up informs that the effects have been disabled (they can be resume by alt+shift + F12).
If not please do read it as this will greatly clarify things. What might also help is installing the latest drivers from the nVidia site as the drivers in the repos usually are outdated. See the link above on how to do this.
Thanks for your sugestion and I also believe the problem is the drivers.
In the #suse freenode irc chat a fellow user pointed out that the Gforce 8200 M does cause a lot of problems, he suggested also to install the latest drivers, he actually uses a Beta version of the Nvidia drivers.
Like me he is using kernel 2.6.37.6-0.5-desktop
KDE 4.6.0
and unlike me he uses Nvidia driver 270.41.03 (Beta)
Anyway if more people would have the same problem we might pinpoint the problem.
Last time I checked the X logs it did not show anything out of the usual …
Right now I have no access to the laptop but as soon as I can i will make a new tour over the logs …
I was just losing my temper all morning when I got the Problem “solved”.
It MUST be a software bug.
I up-dated all Nvidia drivers to the latest version and the like …
But the solution is Simple:
Just Enabled the FPS effect … the windows shows on the monitor and then that’s it !!!
Fixed it !!!
this is a good info for the folk with this same problem and it must be a bug …
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