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On Saturday 02 May 2009 06:21:20 Stroller wrote: |
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> On 1 May 2009, at 20:49, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: |
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> > There is a shot of my screen (1.4MB, look at bottom and right panels): |
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> > |
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> > http://gaydenko.com/tmp/shot01.png |
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> > which I get periodically after few hours working under KDE - at some |
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> > moment |
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> > crazy things happen :-) There is very long software chain from |
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> > kernel video |
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> > driver (intel in my case for on-board G965) to KDE4 itself (~amd64). |
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> > As a |
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> > result, I'm not sure where to dig in. |
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> Looks like an overheating GPU to me. |
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> Do you have accelerated graphics on for those panels? |
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> I'll bet if you turn it off the problem will disappear. |
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Say, bottom panel hasn't something special: std menu, lancelot, tasks, tray |
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and clock. Can overheating be such selectable? - I mean only KDE4 panels- |
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related problem takes place (say, my sone plays few games without any |
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problems, as well as, say, OOo/Qt/KDE and so on emerging ). And I didn't |
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overclocked something. But have added few additional silent coolers inside a |
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case :-) |
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> The graphics card failed here on my Mac a year or two ago, and rather |
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> than pay £200 for an Apple-branded replacement, I found a regular PC |
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> graphics card on which a hacked firmware could be flashed. I have to |
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> under-clock it a little, and if I'm not careful I get a very similar |
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> effect to that in your pictures, but all over the screen. |
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> If you're able to boot to Windows it might be worth playing an FPS - |
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> if it crashes with graphical glitches then you may be able to get the |
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> card (or m/board?) replaced under warranty. |
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> Stroller. |
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