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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