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From: Martin on 20 Jun 2010 18:08
Joseph H. Rosevear wrote:

> Recently got Slackware 13.0. Was using 12.0. Found that the graphics
> in 13.0 are flaky. intel driver gives graphics artifacts, especially
> in Kde.
[...]
> Wondered if 13.1 will help with the above? Would really like to use
> the intel driver, but no graphics artifacts please.

I have a machine where the intel driver delivered with 13.1 works fine, and
another where I got all sorts of X crashes (Clarkdale CPU & H55 chipset).
The latter have been mostly ironed out by upgrading libdrm from 2.4.20 to
2.4.21. At this point in time you need to create your own Slackware package
from the 2.4.21 source.

Flashplayer can still trigger X crashes but it's mostly stable now.

Flashplayer, of course, is essential to watch the World Cup. ;-)

Martin

From: Mike Jones on 21 Jun 2010 06:37
Responding to Joseph H. Rosevear:

> Mike Jones <luck(a)dasteem.invalid> wrote:
>> TIP: Hold down Alt+PrintScreen and slowly type R S E C B S U B
>>
>> If you're lucky, you'll end up at a command promt /before/ you complete
>> the sequence, removing the need to reboot to escape an xorg lockup.
>
> Thanks. This might be useful.


ALERT !!!

Sequence should be R S E I S U B

Update accordingly!

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From: Joseph H. Rosevear on 21 Jun 2010 20:04
Mike Jones <luck(a)dasteem.invalid> wrote:
> ALERT !!!
>
> Sequence should be R S E I S U B
>
> Update accordingly!

Thanks for the info. Where *did* you find this?

-Joe

From: Joseph H. Rosevear on 21 Jun 2010 20:06
Martin <no(a)spam.invalid> wrote:
> I have a machine where the intel driver delivered with 13.1 works fine, and
> another where I got all sorts of X crashes (Clarkdale CPU & H55 chipset).
> The latter have been mostly ironed out by upgrading libdrm from 2.4.20 to
> 2.4.21. At this point in time you need to create your own Slackware package
> from the 2.4.21 source.

That doesn't sound good.

> Flashplayer can still trigger X crashes but it's mostly stable now.
>
> Flashplayer, of course, is essential to watch the World Cup. ;-)

I didn't know that.

-Joe
From: Loki Harfagr on 22 Jun 2010 02:09
Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:04:07 +0000, Joseph H. Rosevear did cat :

> Mike Jones <luck(a)dasteem.invalid> wrote:
>> ALERT !!!
>>
>> Sequence should be R S E I S U B
>>
>> Update accordingly!
>
> Thanks for the info. Where *did* you find this?
>
> -Joe

usual place is:
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt
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