I'm not able to reproduce this 'crash to blank screen' on 2 different systems. (tried with Intel graphics and AMD-fglrx). On both systems I was able to at some point get a plasma crash, but it is able to retore itself from that.
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Josef Odenthal <joe.odent...@gmail.com> wrote: > I tried the nv driver with opengl set to xorg and nvidia both resulted with > black screen with flashing cursor > > I then tried with the vesa driver screen was not refreshing correctly > inserting usb stick caused dt to freeze (I waited 2 minutes hoping it would > come back) > > Changed back to nvidia driver inserted usb stick mpounted it via notifier > worked ok until umount then it dt crashed > > Have noticed that the nvidia graphics does slow down after a bit of usage, > might be worth while going back to previous driver as suggested by Fabio > > I did a clean install on a x86 that has an older x1650 radeon card, using > the daily k build (march 7) it is using ati driver but I still have usb > crash when umount usb stick (will be changing it to limbo repo then update > TO KDE 4.8.1) > > Will also test kde 4.8.1 on another 5 (64bit) systems when I wake up in the > morning > > > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Joost Ruis <joost.r...@sabayonlinux.org> > wrote: >> >> The crash happens everywhere (not always at once) but the PROBLEM here >> seems that nvidia-drivers users can not recover from this crash, where >> other systems can. (e.g. using FGLRX) That is what I'm about here. >> >> It is kinda default that on each major KDE bump configs break, nothing >> new there. >> >> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Michele <de...@gmx.it> wrote: >> > On 9/03/2012 11:08, Joost Ruis wrote: >> >> >> >> I still wonder if there is a relation with those nvidia-drivers. >> >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 4:51 AM, Josef Odenthal<joe.odent...@gmail.com> >> >> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Quick report >> >>> Updated to kde 4.8.1 using sulfur and limbo repo >> >>> After reboot lower panel no longer appeared (just right click dt and >> >>> select >> >>> add panel>default) >> >>> Widgets from previous dt no longer loaded at kde start (just added >> >>> them >> >>> back >> >>> manually) >> >>> >> >>> And still having (but not as bad) the kde 4.8.0 usb crash problem >> >>> >> >>> If you want logs just yell out but give me a few days as I have more >> >>> important tasks >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >> >> > >> > It rather makes me think of a change in config files format, from the >> > description. Maybe it only happens if you have some specific setting >> > that >> > got removed or something like that. >> > It could be the good time for me to get rid of that archaic task bar and >> > switch to PieDock or something similar. >> > >> > mic >> > >> >> > > > >
