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Xkeeper
Posts: -2249/-863 |
Originally posted by FreeDOS
Oh man that sucks. I only had problems with Up2date with Fedora. 
It's bad enough when you can't update your OS.
Well, thanks to Ailure I just used the "yum" program ala Terminal and it did what Up2Date did, but better... or something.
It installed all the updates for me, and I just used it to download a MP3 plugin for XMMS  |
FreeDOS
Posts: 1292/1657 |
Oh man that sucks. I only had problems with Up2date with Fedora.
It's bad enough when you can't update your OS. |
Xkeeper
Posts: -2250/-863 |
Originally posted by FreeDOS
I've seen the same problems with Up2Date... it just freezes and doesn't work. It seems to happen to everybody, so get a better distro like Debian, Slackware, Gentoo.
That wasn't the problem with just that particular program.  It was the entire OS doing that.
Desktop boxes wouldn't draw far enough and wouldn't update, text wouldn't scroll properly (only the bottom line/pixel would), almost nothing worked right. |
FreeDOS
Posts: 1290/1657 |
I've seen the same problems with Up2Date... it just freezes and doesn't work. It seems to happen to everybody, so get a better distro like Debian, Slackware, Gentoo. |
Xkeeper
Posts: -2251/-863 |
After another restart and roughly an hour of sitting at the login screen it's working again, with no problems.
 ... oh well, now that I can actually do shit it's a lot easier to use. |
HyperLamer
Posts: 3926/8210 |
Originally posted by Xkeeper
It worked fine when starting up then stopped again
That means it probably is temperature-related. It can be much hotter in a computer than outside it. If not that, the card might be defective or not getting enough power. |
Ailure
Posts: 8919/11162 |
What does windows report the card as thought? And what drivers are you using for it currently? |
Xkeeper
Posts: -2252/-863 |
I have no clue what card this is.
Oh well... I guess installing this was a waste (no point in having it if it's unusable) |
Ailure
Posts: 8918/11162 |
What video card are you exactly using?
I'm going to install Fedora core 4 test 1 later today probably... so yeah. |
Xkeeper
Posts: -2253/-863 |
Originally posted by DarkSlaya
...Last time I saw something like this, my computer almost blew up (the room's temperature was too high....)
It's not too hot, since it did this while installing on a cold boot (literally cold -- 63 F in my room) and had a much smaller problem like this in Win 98 (scrolling would sometimes leave 'trails') but this is an extreme...
It worked fine when starting up then stopped again, so I'm going to have to try playing with the insides again (moving around wires to try and keep them from getting uber-tangeld) and remove the extra drives, if possible...
... but yes, this sucks. |
DarkSlaya
Posts: 3547/4249 |
...Last time I saw something like this, my computer almost blew up (the room's temperature was too high....) |
Xkeeper
Posts: -2254/-863 |
This is in Fedora Core 3 (zomg linux!111) and for some reason,
It happened in Windows 98 also, but not quite as bad... This almost makes it unusable, since nothing will show up.
A screenshot of the problem, after dragging an invisible window over the screen
I just hope this can be fixed, it's a really bad problem =/ |
