Re: Workarounds for Intel video driver X11 crashes

2016-02-13 Thread Ted Roche
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > If you're having constant crashes like that, there's something wrong. It's > been months since I've had to reboot for anything except a power outage, all > scheduled. Hence my post. Been running Linux since dinosaurs roamed the earth, floppy d

Re: Workarounds for Intel video driver X11 crashes

2016-02-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/12/2016 03:25 AM, Ted Roche wrote: The last time I crashed back to the login screen I hit the little 'gear' icon to see what choices I had installed, and I could pick from "GNOME" "GNOME Classic" and "GNOME with Wayland" (iirc, perhaps not verbatim). I had been using "GNOME Classic" and tho

Re: Workarounds for Intel video driver X11 crashes

2016-02-12 Thread Ted Roche
Tom: The last time I crashed back to the login screen I hit the little 'gear' icon to see what choices I had installed, and I could pick from "GNOME" "GNOME Classic" and "GNOME with Wayland" (iirc, perhaps not verbatim). I had been using "GNOME Classic" and thought I'd try Wayland for the experien

Re: Workarounds for Intel video driver X11 crashes

2016-02-11 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 10:13:10 -0500 Ted Roche wrote: > tweaking settings or switching desktops I'd certainly try switching desktops to something that isn't insisting on doing 3D animations for everything. I use fvwm with intel video all the time and have never had a video related crash that I know

Re: Workarounds for Intel video driver X11 crashes

2016-02-11 Thread Marco Guazzone
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Ted Roche wrote: > I'm running a Dell Inspiron with an Intel video driver and up-to-date > F23 64 bit installed, GNOME3 desktop. I'm looking for suggestions to > improve stability, as I'm crashing 3 - 4 times a day and can't afford > to lose work in progress in Li

Workarounds for Intel video driver X11 crashes

2016-02-11 Thread Ted Roche
I'm running a Dell Inspiron with an Intel video driver and up-to-date F23 64 bit installed, GNOME3 desktop. I'm looking for suggestions to improve stability, as I'm crashing 3 - 4 times a day and can't afford to lose work in progress in LibreOffice, consoles and Chromium. Crashes are almost always