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

[Antonio Roberts]

It turns out I just needed to upgrade my intel graphics drivers, which
is described here
http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-9448-solved-crashes-server

Thanks for the hardware acceleration tip ;-)

On 9 September 2013 12:49, Charles Goyard <cg at fsck.fr> wrote:
> Antonio Roberts wrote:
>> > 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?
>
> Check in the Xorg.log file (on my computer it's /var/log/Xorg.0.log) for
> lines talking about acceleration and intel.
>
> The driver is open source straight from Intel (thanks guys). The
> acceleration can be disabled for some reason.
>
> Maybe there is also an advanced configuration panel somewhere.
>
>
>> 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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