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List:       suse-kde
Subject:    Re: [opensuse-kde] Partial screen lockups occurring on my laptop
From:       Marc Chamberlin <marc () marcchamberlin ! com>
Date:       2013-11-12 23:54:34
Message-ID: 5282BFBA.4060609 () marcchamberlin ! com
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On 11/08/2013 06:37 PM, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
> I have an ASUS G75V series laptop, running openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) with 
> KDE Platform Version 4.10.5 "release 1" and I am getting a somewhat 
> weird screen lockup that occurs at a random moment in time. What 
> happens is that any window that is open and active on my desktop 
> remains useable, but nothing else works. I cannot access ANYTHING in 
> the kicker bar at the bottom of the screen nor can I access any of the 
> background context menus or plasmoid menus.
>
> If I happen to have a shell window open when this "crash" occurs, I 
> can do an rcxdm restart which will restore functionality after logging 
> me out an back in of course. Otherwise I am forced to press the power 
> button on my laptop to bring up the menu that allows me to log out, 
> restart, or shutdown my laptop from which I can also recover. But it 
> is annoying to lose work in progress or have to restart applications 
> that I had running whenever these crashes occur.
>
> I scanned through log files and don't find anything significant or 
> repetitive, but then again I have untrained eyes so take that with a 
> grain of salt. The only other anomaly that I am seeing is a crash 
> report occasionally about KDE plasma. I have reported it only to told 
> it is a duplicate of another bug report- bug 325076 which appears to 
> be a problem with the nVidia drivers. It seems unlikely that this 
> problem I am seeing is related to some kind of nVidia driver issue, 
> but perhaps it is?
>
> Anywise, how can I track down the source of this problem, fix it, or 
> should I simply bug report it?
>
>     Marc....
>

Well, I have let this ride for a few days without getting any response 
that provides a solution. Since a couple of other guys have also 
reported seeing the same problem, shall I report it as a bug if there 
are no further thoughts?

      Marc....

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