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    Hello together,

    I am new to the forum, although I have been using kubuntu for about 15 years now.

    Since the upgarde to kinetic (default installation) I have almost daily kwin crashes, often kwin is automatically restarted and then works again - albeit with some incorrect display of the windows. Mostly only a reboot helps in this situation.

    I have this problem on both of my desktops, both with Intel graphics.

    System 1:
    Code:
    28: PCI 02.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA) 
    [Created at pci.386]
    Unique ID: _Znp.xa29GW7G6OF
    SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0
    SysFS BusID: 0000:00:02.0
    Hardware Class: graphics card
    Device Name: "CPU"
    Model: "Intel CoffeeLake-U GT3e [Iris Plus Graphics 655]"
    Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
    Device: pci 0x3ea5 "CoffeeLake-U GT3e [Iris Plus Graphics 655]"
    SubVendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
    SubDevice: pci 0x2074
    Revision: 0x01
    Driver: "i915"
    Driver Modules: "i915"
    Memory Range: 0xbf000000-0xbfffffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
    Memory Range: 0x80000000-0x8fffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
    I/O Ports: 0x4000-0x403f (rw)
    Memory Range: 0x000c0000-0x000dffff (rw,non-prefetchable,disabled)
    IRQ: 143 (7037812 events)
    Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d00003EA5sv00008086sd00002074bc03sc0 0i00"
    Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: i915 is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe i915"
    Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
    
    Primary display adapter: #28

    System2:
    Code:
    23: PCI 02.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA) 
    [Created at pci.386]
    Unique ID: _Znp.dhPHymGn9H8
    SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0
    SysFS BusID: 0000:00:02.0
    Hardware Class: graphics card
    Model: "Intel VGA compatible controller"
    Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
    Device: pci 0x46a6
    SubVendor: pci 0x17aa "Lenovo"
    SubDevice: pci 0x22e7
    Revision: 0x0c
    Driver: "i915"
    Driver Modules: "i915"
    Memory Range: 0x603c000000-0x603cffffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
    Memory Range: 0x4000000000-0x400fffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
    I/O Ports: 0x2000-0x203f (rw)
    Memory Range: 0x000c0000-0x000dffff (rw,non-prefetchable,disabled)
    IRQ: 176 (147700 events)
    Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d000046A6sv000017AAsd000022E7bc03sc0 0i00"
    Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: i915 is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe i915"
    Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
    
    Primary display adapter: #23
    How can I proceed to isolate the cause and fix it?

    Thx and best regards
    Jörg
    Last edited by Snowhog; Feb 15, 2023, 07:13 AM.

    #2
    The PCI Vendor and Device values are both listed in the i915 list of compatible devices
    ~$ modinfo i915 | grep 46A6
    alias: pci:v00008086d000046A6sv*sd*bc03sc*i*
    ~$ modinfo i915 | grep 3EA5
    alias: pci:v00008086d00003EA5sv*sd*bc03sc*i*
    Although KWin is the compositor for X and Wayland your display might work better under Wayland that under X.
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      #3
      okay thx! I try Wayland and come back wit the result. Sometimes it takes 1-2 days until it starts to crash

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        #4
        short intermediate state ... so far it runs stable with wayland

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          #5
          still no crash, it's resolved.
          Thx!

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            #6
            me again

            the only problem i have now with wayland is that not everything is supported. Screen sharing works neither with slack nor with teams (only a black desktop is transferred) and the screen recorder tools which I have tested only record a black image

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              #7
              So that you are not trying to solve known bugs in Wayland :
              https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland_Showstoppers
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                #8
                OBS can be used for screen recording, currently. The next release of Spectacle should have built in screen recording, including Wayland, so that should be in the next Kubuntu release, hopefully.

                For Slack, there are tweaks that may work, depending on the install method, enabling support that Slack haven't yet enabled by default:
                https://github.com/flathub/com.slack...ent-1276765545
                https://www.guyrutenberg.com/2022/03...under-wayland/

                For Teams, though there may not be a fix as of yet.
                Zoom can be made to work, in the browser, if not the standalone app.

                Electron based apps are generally crap in general, and the specific version of this being used by the application can be a factor here. I think all of these are electron.

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                  #9
                  Tanks, with this option the screen sharing with slack is working

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