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 -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20100606/91a101a6/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20100606/91a101a6/attachment.bin
