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#1 2022-04-06 14:12:12

kjpetrie
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Registered: 2021-10-03
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Plasma crashes and restarts every few minutes on Dell Inspiron 9400

This is an annoying flicker which started when I upgraded to Chimaera. I suspect I need to tweak X configuration somewhere for this older hardware, but can't find a configuration file. Any clues would be welcome. Inxi output below.

System:
  Host: master7 Kernel: 5.10.0-13-686 i686 bits: 32 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.20.5 Distro: Devuan GNU/Linux 4 (chimaera) 
Machine:
  Type: Portable System: Dell product: MP061 v: N/A 
  serial: <superuser required> 
  Mobo: Dell model: 0FF049 serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Dell 
  v: A01 date: 03/17/2006 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 44.6 Wh condition: 44.6/79.9 Wh (56%) 
CPU:
  Info: Dual Core model: Intel T2300 bits: 32 type: MCP L2 cache: 2 MiB 
  Speed: 1455 MHz min/max: 1000/1667 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1455 
  2: 1451 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Mobile 945GM/GMS 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: intel 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1920x1200~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 945GM x86/MMX/SSE2 v: 1.4 Mesa 20.3.5 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio 
  driver: snd_hda_intel 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.0-13-686 
Network:
  Device-1: Broadcom BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX driver: b44 
  Device-2: Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network driver: iwl3945 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 00:13:02:xx:xx:xx 
  Device-3: Dell Wireless 350 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb 
  IF-ID-1: eth0 state: down mac: 00:14:22:xx:xx:xx 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Dell Wireless 350 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb 
  Report: ID: hci0 state: up running bt-v: 1.2 
  address: 00:16:41:xx:xx:xx 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 91.76 GiB used: 7.63 GiB (8.3%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Fujitsu model: MHV2100BH size: 91.76 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 27.37 GiB used: 6.72 GiB (24.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
  ID-2: /home size: 61.62 GiB used: 925.3 MiB (1.5%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/sda6 
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 976 MiB used: 3.8 MiB (0.4%) 
  dev: /dev/sda5 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 39.0 C mobo: N/A sodimm: SODIMM C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 fan-2: 0 
Info:
  Processes: 156 Uptime: 4h 17m Memory: 1.96 GiB used: 1.13 GiB (57.5%) 
  Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.01 

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