[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-151: GNOME crashes but not KDE 4.6

[Alex Lam S.L.]

So after updating the nvidia driver as suggested and still get frozen
desktop every few days (SSH to restart gdm will rectify the issue
without the need to reset the PC), I have decided to take the other
suggestion and give KDE a go.

I followed the instructions on this page:

  http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_on_Solaris/OpenSolaris

and fetched my copy from here (thanks for the hard work guys!):

  http://solaris.bionicmutton.org/pkg/4.6.0

... and it just works.

After that, I have been running the server PC for two weeks without
any frozen desktop issues.

So I wonder if this is a GNOME-specific issue? Or is this still a
nvidia driver issue, just that faulty functionality in question is
used by GNOME but not KDE?


Alex.


P.S. from the package version numbers this seems to be 4.6.1, but I am
not certain.