On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 12:14:37 +0100 "Sebastian Verderber" <ba...@fet.at> said:
> >> could you take a video of it (from your digital camera/phone or > >> something)? > > the video is here: > http://web.student.tuwien.ac.at/~e0126604/e17-opensuse-mozilla-crashing.mp4 > > this was a freshly started session - i opened firefox, closed it and > tried to open thunderbird. i had the e startup screen disabled, so the > image that flashes through is either kdm or plymouth. after a few > seconds i zapped x. > btw: the same thing occurs if i open firefox again after closing it, > or open a second ff window. > > > Try killing plymouth. > > i'll try it when my work for today is done. looking at what you have there... my instincts say "driver bug". fglrx did you say? once upon a time in a land far far away i had a radeon card. i used fglrx because the open src drivers didn't work on it... i have since sworn never to have anything to do with ati goop again. ever. that's how bad i consider those drivers. it looks like a framebuffer bug - it seems to be picking up some "old" buffer somewhere in video ram - possibly the fbcon framebuffer (and that's why u see a green suse logo - and my bet is thats what shows at boot time - right?). also prior to switching buffers, it seems to flip the framebuffer between linear and tiled mode or between different tiled modes. the tell-tale blocky patternings say that, and that alone already screams out "driver bug", as this is a deep down framebuffer layout mode totally out of the control of any app or compositor. the fact we get a totally unrelated bit of screen content (e doesn't know about this bootsplash image at all) is another hint telling me it's a driver bug (it's not something e can get wrong as its totally outside of its knowledge). the third thing telling me is... fglrx. get rid of that junk as soon as you can. > sebastian > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single > web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, > SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. > Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
