On Thu, 2022-01-06 at 09:40 -0400, George N. White III wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 at 06:54, Jonathan Ryshpan <jonr...@pacbell.net>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2022-01-05 at 01:19 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> > > On 1/5/22 01:00, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > > > Wayland is very flaky, crashes of various kinds, sometimes
> > > > killing individual apps, sometimes an entire session.  I can't
> > > > reproduce the crashes reliably; they happen when they happen.
> > > > The only thing that may be relevant is that I am running
> > > > Firefox with many (probably too many) 
> > > > windows and tabs.
> > > 
> > > It's probably not Wayland.  When it happens, check the journal. 
> > > It's likely the OOM killer.
> > BTW: KDE is now better.  No artifacts running X11, after nothing
> > but investigating and replying to your email.  Go figure...
> 
> 
> Intel is no longer supporting cards that old.
A case of "planned obsolescence".  My system is more than adequate for
everything I need it to do: web surfing, email, videos, sys admin, a
little development, etc. and nonetheless the CPU is no longer under
supported.  Oh well...

> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/intel_graphics as usual, lots of
> good detail
> 
> I have a similar vintage system that is mainly used for data
> transfers from firewire and old memory card formats, so I may not
> encounter edge cases with graphics using a low-end (small fan) nvidia
> card and nouveau.  There are probably lots of old graphics cards
> gathering dust -- you could try ebay or a local computer users group.

Thanks very much.  It was hardware trouble and has been cured by the
advice about "Tearing" in Archlinux.

-- 
Sincerely Jonathan Ryshpan <jonr...@pacbell.net>

 Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book. 
 Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx
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