[wellylug] Mandrake Question

[Tim Wright]

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Hi there,

I'm having a couple of issues with Mandrake 9.2. I was wondering if anyone had 
any ideas what's happenning.

The computer is an old one, probably a pentium 2 (it's in the wairarapa, and 
I'm in Wellington) with 196MB ram (i upgraded the ram to put linux on it). 
It's got a USB mouse. It's got a winmodem, that is working.

Initial problems were mouse (not keyboard) lockup in X. Sometimes a 
CTRL-ALT-BckSpace  would return control of mouse, sometimes not, and a reboot 
was in order. I've noticed another installation of Mandrake doing a similar 
thing with a USB mouse. However, it's got worse.

Here's the current problem report (written by my mum:)

> No it doesn't print out anything - when I first turn it on in the
> morning - it more often than not - after it is almost ready for me to
> use - a little buzzer goes and it flicks onto the white screen with all
> the writing - almost a reset - then it goes through it all again -
> otherwise I have to reset it myself - after a while the mouse cursor
> will disappear altogether, or freeze - and I reset it.
> It is very slow to warm up in the morning - a good 15 minutes.

"the white screen with all the writing" is probably a text console. "goes 
through it all again" is probably KDE initialising.

Any ideas...or does anyone have disks for a different distro that I can use? 
(I'm a Debian geek, but don't want to put that on a computer with a slow 
network connection:)

I've asked mum to send down the X config (told her to attach 
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to an email), so will post that if and when if comes 
through. Otherwise...what are your thoughts.

- -- 
Tim Wright
Lecturer
School of Mathematical and Computing Sciences
http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/~tim
Public Key: http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/~tim/key.asc
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