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    Feisty not stable, looking for recommendations.

    I'm using the amd 64 version of Feisty.
    And I'm not complaining. I anticipated what I was getting myself into,
    but I couldn't get debian 4.0 or "older" kubuntu to work with my
    onboard chipset.

    KDE/X is not very stable. I have frequent crashes, with KDE/X becoming
    so unresponsive that I have to manually power off and restart.

    I would welcome some tips as to improve the stability or reduce
    the frequency of unexpected lockups. This is a business machine,
    I earn my living with it as a programmer.

    questions:
    1)Is there an "ubuntu-esque" proper way to "reboot" X without
    rebooting the machine. I.E. ctrl-alt-backspace restarts X with
    the login window, would it be recommended to do so a couple
    of times a day?
    2)Compiling the kernel: I've done this a lot on slack and RH, although
    a suspect it is more X or KDE than the kernel that is the main
    source of instability.
    All comments welcome. I'm not here to whine, but to learn :-)
    Thanks
    Tim
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    Re: Feisty not stable, looking for recommendations.

    I'm far from the Linux guru you're probably seeking, but if you suspect it is KDE/KDM causing the instability, why not stop the xserver and let your system run in text mode all day? (Obviously, not a lot of work that requires graphical interface will happen ...). If you are correct in your theory, it should run stable for 24 hours and still be ready to go. Then, you could focus on what is going on with the xserver and KDM.

    However, if it locks up in text-only mode, then you'll know it's more fundamental, probably with a hardware incompatibility issue.

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      Re: Feisty not stable, looking for recommendations.

      I can't let it run in text mode all day, unless I'm not working, but
      what I *can* do is boot in text mode, manually `startx' - and
      I presume then, when I log out, I will be taken back to the text
      mode command line. (works like this in slack and RH).
      That way, a couple of times a day, I can just restart X in this fashion.
      thanks
      tim
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        Re: Feisty not stable, looking for recommendations.

        OK, but to actually STOP the xserver, you need to (1) first get out of it, by Ctrl-Alt-F1, and (2) shut it down with the command
        Code:
        sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop
        And then to restart the xserver, the command is
        Code:
        sudo /etc/init.d/kdm restart
        Code:
        startx
        will run the GUI login for you

        Merely logging out of your KDE session does not shut down the xserver, as I understand it.

        Hope this helps!

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          Re: Feisty not stable, looking for recommendations.

          Yes indeed. That is very helpful. Sounds like a good part of a plan.
          thanks
          tim
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