[ILUG] Odd crashes

[Brian Foster]

 1) Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:58:59 +0000 (GMT)
 1) Subject: Re: [ILUG] Odd crashes
 1) From: paul at clubi.ie
 1) To: Kevin Philp <lists at cybercolloids.net>
 1) 
 1) On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Kevin Philp wrote:
 1) > I have one user on my network whose computer routinely freezes
 1) > (about once a day) - usually when using the mouse to scroll on
 1) > a document.  All the other users have exactly the same software
 1) > (Ubuntu Karmic clients [...]
 1) 
 1) There have been X driver bugs that match this, e.g. I think the intel
 1) driver had one mid last year.

  YES.  If the machine has an Intel graphics chip, there _is_
  a problrm in Ubuntu 9.04(at least) which causes exactly this
  behaviour (I don't know about 9.10).  From a recent posting
  of mine:

 2) Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:03:57 +0100
 2) From: Brian Foster <blf at utvinternet.ie>
 2) Subject: Re: [ILUG] Opera freezes Ubuntu 9.10
 2) Comments: In-reply-to Gareth Eason <bigbro at skynet.ie>
 2) 	message dated "Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:13:05 +0000".
 2) Message-Id: <20100107210357.D4D66131 at blf>
 2) 
 2)[ ... I have ] an Intel graphics chip (82Q35), and there's a
 2)  problem in 9.04 with the relevant driver that bit Kbunutu
 2)  users especially hard (but Gnome users were not immune):
 2) 
 2)     https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kubuntu-meta/+bug/337351
 2) 
 2)  (“kubuntu 9.04 freezes all the time”, which is an rather accurate
 2)  title!).  the work-around suggested in comment #36 (“... DRI off”)
 2)  worked for me.  [ ... ]

cheers!
	-blf-

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