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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