Comment 64 for bug 862964

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In , John Stanley (jpsinthemix) wrote :

(In reply to comment #52)
> (In reply to comment #51)
>
> > http://commits.kde.org/kde-workspace/4281fd09be344bfa99b0450eae384b49b55db152
> > but results in new video glitches (at least in the firefox)
> of what kind?
>

I'll post some screenshots as soon as I can, as its hard to describe.

> > and frequent random system hangs (requiring
> > a reboot) when child popups are started.
> Since the difference is only where in the texture what pixmap is deposited:
> - How do you determine this?
> - sure it requires a *reboot*? Suspending the compositor isn't sufficient?
> (shift+alt+f12)
> Can you still switch to VT1 (ctrl+alt+f1, first ensure that this works in
> general and wasn't deactivated by your distro)
> If you can move to VT1 during such "hang", please log in there, gdb attach to
> the kwin process and fetch a backtrace. You can pipe gdb through tee to dump
> the output. Please attach that.

Its pretty much a 'hard hang': cannot switch vts, cannot logout, can't even remotely log in, no response to keynboard, etc; simply have to powerdown..