Scrambled screen, then no Fedora

[Anne Wilson]

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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