It turns out I just needed to upgrade my intel graphics drivers, which is described here http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-9448-solved-crashes-server
Thanks for the hardware acceleration tip ;-) On 9 September 2013 12:49, Charles Goyard <c...@fsck.fr> wrote: > Antonio Roberts wrote: >> > So first, double check you are using hardware acceleration. I thought I >> > was and I wasn't for months :). >> >> How can I check this on Ubuntu 13.04? I don't appear to have any >> proprietary drivers installed but does that mean it's not using >> hardware acceleration? > > Check in the Xorg.log file (on my computer it's /var/log/Xorg.0.log) for > lines talking about acceleration and intel. > > The driver is open source straight from Intel (thanks guys). The > acceleration can be disabled for some reason. > > Maybe there is also an advanced configuration panel somewhere. > > >> On 9 September 2013 09:21, Charles Goyard <c...@fsck.fr> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I noticed that on my computer too a few months back. I had the same >> > problem with Audacity and Kicad (both wxwidgets apps). >> > >> > For what I understand, this has been tracked down to a bug in the Intel >> > driver in conjunction with a Xorg bug when using unaccelerated graphics. >> > But I may be wrong. >> > >> > So first, double check you are using hardware acceleration. I thought I >> > was and I wasn't for months :). >> > >> > >> > Antonio Roberts wrote: >> >> I recently got a Dell XPS 13 Developer edition running Ubuntu 13.04 >> >> (Intel Ivybridge Mobile driver) and have tried using pd-extended >> >> 0.43.4 64 on it. For the most part it runs fine. However, I've noticed >> >> that in some situations, such as an old patch not being able to find >> >> external abstractions, it causes the screen to go black and then log >> >> me out. This also happens in some patches when I try to type in the >> >> name of a new object on the canvas. >> >> >> >> I'm not exactly sure what is causing this. I've attached a patch that >> >> I grabbed from the list which causes a restart when I try to type in a >> >> new object > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list -- ============================ anto...@hellocatfood.com http://www.hellocatfood.com ============================ _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list