On 08/08/2017 05:32 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-08-07 at 14:05 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
>> On Mon, 2017-08-07 at 11:59 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
>>> On 08/06/2017 08:34 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
>>>> These should be easy to find out but they don't seem to be: What X driver does
>>>> my system use? If as I suspect it's for intel/Haskel, is it set to use sna or
>>>> uxa acceleration? Hardware is: 4 core Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4460 CPU @ 3.20GHz
>>>> Software is: Fedora-26 with all updates Kernel 4.11.12-200.fc25.x86_64 KDE
>>>> Frameworks 5.36.0
>>>
>>> The "intel" X.org driver is deprecated. I recommend you switch to the "modesetting"
>>> driver.
>>>
>>> With the modesetting driver installed you can remove the intel driver.
>>
>> The modesetting driver appears to be installed since it's part of the
>> xorg-x11-server-Xorg package, which is installed on my system. But possibly not
>> active. Where are instructions on how to find out whether it's active and, if
>> necessary, how to activate it?
> Just after posting this I looked at Xorg.0.log again and found that
>
> 1. the system *is* running the modesetting driver
> 2. the modesetting driver's man page says it doesn't do acceleration, which
> explains why there's no reference to sna or uxa in Xprg.0.log.
>
>
>
> ===> So, I'm left with my original problem, which is why the KDE Plasma desktop
> often crashes when I close an instance of Firefox with a lot of open windows and/or
> tabs. I had suspected that it might have something to do with graphics acceleration
> (there are hints of such problems on the web), but it seems not to be so.
> Suggestions are welcome. I've reported the crashes to Red Hat's Bugzilla.
>
What is the bugzilla #? Even though I don't use Intel HW at the moment it does
concern KDE which I do run an I would like to follow. You may also want to post your
experience on the KDE list as someone there may have run into this.
Additionally, I think you may also want to try switching to the intel driver. I
believe this can be done by just creating an xorg.conf with just
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "intel"
EndSection
as the content.
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