Re: [PD] Loading/modifying some PD files causing computer restart

2013-09-09 Thread Antonio Roberts
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 wrote: > Antonio Roberts wrote: >> > So first, double check

Re: [PD] Loading/modifying some PD files causing computer restart

2013-09-09 Thread Charles Goyard
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? Ch

Re: [PD] Loading/modifying some PD files causing computer restart

2013-09-09 Thread Antonio Roberts
> 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? On 9 September 2013 09:21, Charles Go

Re: [PD] Loading/modifying some PD files causing computer restart

2013-09-09 Thread Charles Goyard
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 f

[PD] Loading/modifying some PD files causing computer restart

2013-09-08 Thread Antonio Roberts
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