On Thu, 2022-01-06 at 09:40 -0400, George N. White III 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...
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.
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Sincerely Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh@pacbell.net>
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