On Saturday 05 June 2010 17:56:33 Ryan Rix wrote:
On Thu 3 June 2010 11:31:37 am Anne Wilson wrote:
> I'm not sure what's happening on my new laptop - the F13 one. I had
quite
> a few windows open. when suddenly the screen scrambled - it looked as
> though holes were punched in every character. The wallpaper and
plasmoids
> were unaffected. It held like that for a few seconds, then dropped out
to
> a black screen with a white cursor. It wouldn't accept any input from
> keyboard or mouse.
So this is just a completely WILD shot in the dark right now, but do you
have an intel graphics card?
I do. I don't have compositing running - when I installed Fedora it would
only start KDE in safe mode, and I haven't tested it recently.
I have been experiencing -very- similar issues, brought it up in IRC
last
night, and Dan Leiner (running openSuSE) has very similar issues, and a
few other KDE developers I know (at least one who thinks it's the same
issue) but we can't seem to figure out where this is coming from.
The only real connection I can make right now, as strange as it sounds, is
Amarok... I don't experience this sort of crash until Amarok has been open
for any long amount of time... I have been running my system without
Amarok and it has been -much- less random-xorg-crash-with-screen-
corruption-y... About an hour after I started Amarok last night, boom,
crash. I dunno for sure, and am not implicating anyone, but I have a
feeling it's triggering some Qt or Xorg driver bug that is causing things
to go to hell...
This is all just WILD speculation with no real backup of course, not
implicating amarok yet ;)
It's possible. I had been running Amarok, although I have used Amarok before
and since.
Can you attach Xorg.0.log or Xorg.0.log.old the next time it crashes,
whichever has the crash backtrace, or is filled with about 10MiB of error
messages like mine is :)
If it does it again I'll see what I can do.
Anne
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