[PD] Loading/modifying some PD files causing computer restart

[Antonio Roberts]

> So first, double check you are using hardware acceleration. I thought I
> was and I wasn't for months :).

How can I check this on Ubuntu 13.04? I don't appear to have any
proprietary drivers installed but does that mean it's not using
hardware acceleration?

On 9 September 2013 09:21, Charles Goyard <cg at fsck.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that on my computer too a few months back. I had the same
> problem with Audacity and Kicad (both wxwidgets apps).
>
> For what I understand, this has been tracked down to a bug in the Intel
> driver in conjunction with a Xorg bug when using unaccelerated graphics.
> But I may be wrong.
>
> So first, double check you are using hardware acceleration. I thought I
> was and I wasn't for months :).
>
>
> Antonio Roberts wrote:
>> I recently got a Dell XPS 13 Developer edition running Ubuntu 13.04
>> (Intel Ivybridge Mobile driver) and have tried using pd-extended
>> 0.43.4 64 on it. For the most part it runs fine. However, I've noticed
>> that in some situations, such as an old patch not being able to find
>> external abstractions, it causes the screen to go black and then log
>> me out. This also happens in some patches when I try to type in the
>> name of a new object on the canvas.
>>
>> I'm not exactly sure what is causing this. I've attached a patch that
>> I grabbed from the list which causes a restart when I try to type in a
>> new object
>
>
>
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