On 04/29/2012 07:12 PM, Darrell Anderson wrote: >> Oh well, How do you eat a whale ---> one bite at a time. >> Let's start eating... > > David, as you tend to update your system routinely, because that is somewhat the nature of a rolling release, what system packages did you update at about the time you started to notice the problems? Perhaps that short list might provide a clue as what is also installed here. > > At the moment I want to ignore nvidia and xorg server because I am using the same versions for 13.37 as well. > > Oh, and I tried the same kwrite test with the vesa driver. My screen looked like silly putty but kwrite froze again. So probably not nvidia or xorg. > > Darrell > > Not much, but here it is. I can't see anything related: [2012-04-02 16:34] installed libcddb (1.3.2-3) [2012-04-02 16:34] installed libcdio (0.83-1) [2012-04-12 07:57] installed gstreamer0.10 (0.10.36-1) [2012-04-12 07:57] installed gstreamer0.10-base (0.10.36-1) [2012-04-12 13:25] installed libmtp (1.1.3-1) [2012-04-14 17:54] installed mutagen (1.20-4) [2012-04-14 17:54] installed sg3_utils (1.33-1) [2012-04-14 17:54] installed libplist (1.4-1) [2012-04-14 17:54] installed usbmuxd (1.0.7-2) [2012-04-14 17:54] installed libimobiledevice (1.1.1-2) [2012-04-14 17:54] installed libgpod (0.8.2-4) [2012-04-20 16:35] installed faad2 (2.7-3) [2012-04-20 16:35] installed faac (1.28-3) [2012-04-20 16:35] installed libquicktime (1.2.4-1) [2012-04-20 16:35] installed recode (3.6-7) [2012-04-20 16:35] installed enca (1.13-2) [2012-04-20 16:35] installed a52dec (0.7.4-6) [2012-04-20 16:35] installed libdca (0.0.5-3) [2012-04-20 16:35] installed libass (0.10.0-3) [2012-04-20 16:35] installed libbluray (0.2.1-1) [2012-04-20 16:35] installed mencoder (34799-1) [2012-04-20 16:35] installed libftdi (0.20-1) [2012-04-20 16:35] installed libirman (0.4.5-3) [2012-04-20 16:35] installed lirc-utils (1:0.9.0-15) [2012-04-20 16:35] installed aalib (1.4rc5-9) [2012-04-20 16:35] installed libvdpau (0.4.1-2) [2012-04-20 16:35] installed libcaca (0.99.beta17-2) [2012-04-20 16:35] installed mplayer (34799-1) [2012-04-20 16:35] installed xdg-utils (1.1.0rc1-3) [2012-04-20 16:35] installed xine-ui (0.99.6-5) [2012-04-25 01:02] installed libwmf (0.2.8.4-9) [2012-04-25 01:02] installed babl (0.1.6-1) [2012-04-25 01:02] installed gegl (0.1.8-2) [2012-04-25 01:03] installed gimp (2.6.12-1) [2012-04-25 01:03] installed gimp-dbp (1.1.9-3) [2012-04-25 01:03] installed gimp-gap (2.6.0-3) [2012-04-25 01:03] installed gimp-help-en (2.6.1-1) [2012-04-25 01:03] installed gtkimageview (1.6.4-3) [2012-04-25 01:03] installed gimp-ufraw (0.18-4) [2012-04-25 01:03] installed gimp-plugin-fblur (3.2.6-3) [2012-04-25 01:03] installed blas (3.4.0-1) [2012-04-25 01:03] installed lapack (3.4.0-1) [2012-04-25 01:03] installed gimp-plugin-gmic (1.5.1.2-1) [2012-04-25 01:03] installed liblqr (0.4.1-3) [2012-04-25 01:03] installed gimp-plugin-lqr (0.7.1-4) [2012-04-25 01:03] installed gsl (1.15-2) [2012-04-25 01:03] installed gtksourceview2 (2.10.5-2) [2012-04-25 01:03] installed gimp-plugin-mathmap (1.3.5-2) [2012-04-25 01:03] installed gimp-plugin-wavelet-decompose (0.1.2-2) [2012-04-25 01:03] installed gimp-plugin-wavelet-denoise (0.3.1-2) [2012-04-25 01:03] installed gimp-refocus (0.9.0-3) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.