Sorry, not enough coffein error. I wanted to say:
"Could you please
attach the output of dmesg" :-)
Nik
Anno domini 2019 Tue, 22 Jan 21:37:31 -0800
Hawke Robinson scripsit:
Greetings,
First, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TDE! The horrible things they have
done to KDE from 4.x onward seem unspeakably bad. I am so very
grateful you revived this much more productive interface.
I am however having some trouble and not sure how much is TDE, video
driver, touchpad/touchscreen driver, kernel, and/or other hardware
driver issues. If it isn't TDE itself, I appreciate help isolating
which components to tackle first.
I haven't figured out the causality yet, and it is random seeming
but frequent. Periodically the little crash indicator red light
icon shows up in the lower right corner of taskbar.
Sometimes the message when I mouse hover over the icon:
"A problem in the xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.20.1-5.1.el7 package has
been detected". Other times it is something about a kernel error,
and then before I can read more, I get logged out of TDE and
brought to the login screen.
Also the screen will dim down considerably some times, seemingly
randomly, appearing to be around 10-25% brightnness, but command
line cranking it up to 1.0 barely raises it up. I have to fully
reboot the system to get the screen brightness back to normal.
It _might_ (and I emphasize guessing heavily) coincide with
multitouch on the touchpad, but really can't trigger it reliably.
It usually happens faster if I am using the laptop, but sometimes I
come back and it has logged itself out without my being there at
all.
Sometimes it seems to trigger the logout when I am using 2-finger or
3-finger scrolling on the touchpad. Sometimes the touchpad makes the
mouse jump around. Other times it behaves just fine.
There is also a weird behavior if I accidentally click two fingers
on the touchpad 3-4 Konsole screens appear, and I click on the X in
upper right hand corner of each window to close, when I click on
the 2nd to last one, 3 more appear! The only way to stop that is
to type "exit" in each rather than using the mouse.
Weird behaviors, but seem interconnected somewhat?
Everything else seems to be working well though I haven't tried any
3d tests yet.
The "Automatic But Reporting Tool" shows "My (0)" and "System
(4)
but in the right hand column shows "No problems detected!".
I'm not sure where to begin as far as logs that might be useful, so
could use a little guidance. There is a lot of whitenoise (to me at
least) on the logs, so suggestions would be appreciated.
This is a very new 2 in 1 laptop, and I wonder if it has anything
to do with the drivers between the touch screen (which I only
rarely use) and the touchpad (use a lot), and/or something with the
video drivers. But I'm totally shotgunning here.
Specifications information here:
http://www2.techtalkhawke.com/news/linux-on-dell-xps-9575-15-inch-2-in-1-1
Also at end of posting linked above are log outputs
from /var/log/messages, tdm.log, Xorg.0.log, ~/.xsession-error, etc.
Appreciate help isolating the issues or if this is common/known
issue on this new hardware, any known fixes or workarounds to try.
Thanks kindly!
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