Scrambled screen, then no Fedora

[Ryan Rix]

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 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 ;)


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 :)

Ryan

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