On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 15:34:22 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
On 14/07/10 17:25, Bob Proulx wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote:
Do you see signs of an X server restart or
anything else that looks suspicious in /var/log/Xorg.0.log or
/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old or /var/log/syslog?
See also the ~/.xsesssion-errors file.
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It has happened again whilst I was having lunch today. System had
been idle for about 4 hours and when I came back to it I had been
logged out. Only 15 minutes ago (so it had worked perfectly up
until then) it created an /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old file with ...
Fatal server error:
Failed to submit batchbuffer: Input/output error
That is a problem with the video driver; your GPU is choking on a set of
instructions that it is supposed to execute. Which video chipset do you
use, which version of the X server and which kernel? (An Intel 845
series chipset with Sid's Xorg and kernel, maybe?)