DSoD : Diagonal Screen of Death

[Aaron Gray]

Yep I get the same particularly with Firewalld and
NetworkManager/Connections. Its only on one machine, all my others are fine.


On 11 April 2013 21:54, Beartooth <beartooth at comcast.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 09 Apr 2013 22:59:36 +0930, Tim wrote:
>
> > Allegedly, on or about 08 April 2013, Beartooth sent:
> >> On Fedora 17 and 18 I sometimes get a display like nothing else I know.
> >> It's made up of short horizontal lines, some in color, arranged into
> >> long diagonals that cover the screen, with about the angle of a
> >> backslash. The little lines in each group are parallel, and there's
> >> always a little space between every group and the next.
> >
> > Sounds like a graphics crash, whether that be a hardware problem, or a
> > driver fault.
> >
> > The suggestions about cooling have merit, and it *might* be easy enough
> > to aim a fan at your card to see if it helps.  If your graphics card has
> > its own fan, or cooling fins, it'd pay to check that they're in a good
> > condition.
>         [....]
>         I should have mentioned that this screen arises on at least three
> machines, running F17 fully updated, built for me by two different alpha
> technoids, years apart.
>
>         I suppose it could still be a cooling problem, because I do much
> the same things on two of them; but my spouse uses the third very
> differently. (I have a couple  more F17 machines, but use them less, and
> one currently has an (I think) unrelated problem.)
>
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