[opensuse-kde] Partial screen lockups occurring on my laptop
I have an ASUS G75V series laptop, running openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) with KDE Platform Version 4.10.5 "release 1" and I am getting a somewhat weird screen lockup that occurs at a random moment in time. What happens is that any window that is open and active on my desktop remains useable, but nothing else works. I cannot access ANYTHING in the kicker bar at the bottom of the screen nor can I access any of the background context menus or plasmoid menus. If I happen to have a shell window open when this "crash" occurs, I can do an rcxdm restart which will restore functionality after logging me out an back in of course. Otherwise I am forced to press the power button on my laptop to bring up the menu that allows me to log out, restart, or shutdown my laptop from which I can also recover. But it is annoying to lose work in progress or have to restart applications that I had running whenever these crashes occur. I scanned through log files and don't find anything significant or repetitive, but then again I have untrained eyes so take that with a grain of salt. The only other anomaly that I am seeing is a crash report occasionally about KDE plasma. I have reported it only to told it is a duplicate of another bug report- bug 325076 which appears to be a problem with the nVidia drivers. It seems unlikely that this problem I am seeing is related to some kind of nVidia driver issue, but perhaps it is? Anywise, how can I track down the source of this problem, fix it, or should I simply bug report it? Marc.... -- "The Truth is out there" - Spooky -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
On 11/08/2013 06:37 PM, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
I have an ASUS G75V series laptop, running openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) with KDE Platform Version 4.10.5 "release 1" and I am getting a somewhat weird screen lockup that occurs at a random moment in time. What happens is that any window that is open and active on my desktop remains useable, but nothing else works. I cannot access ANYTHING in the kicker bar at the bottom of the screen nor can I access any of the background context menus or plasmoid menus.
If I happen to have a shell window open when this "crash" occurs, I can do an rcxdm restart which will restore functionality after logging me out an back in of course. Otherwise I am forced to press the power button on my laptop to bring up the menu that allows me to log out, restart, or shutdown my laptop from which I can also recover. But it is annoying to lose work in progress or have to restart applications that I had running whenever these crashes occur.
I scanned through log files and don't find anything significant or repetitive, but then again I have untrained eyes so take that with a grain of salt. The only other anomaly that I am seeing is a crash report occasionally about KDE plasma. I have reported it only to told it is a duplicate of another bug report- bug 325076 which appears to be a problem with the nVidia drivers. It seems unlikely that this problem I am seeing is related to some kind of nVidia driver issue, but perhaps it is?
Anywise, how can I track down the source of this problem, fix it, or should I simply bug report it?
Marc....
Well, I have let this ride for a few days without getting any response that provides a solution. Since a couple of other guys have also reported seeing the same problem, shall I report it as a bug if there are no further thoughts? Marc.... -- "The Truth is out there" - Spooky -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
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