[Interest] heads up - ksplashqml crash

[Roland Hughes]

My hardware was new enough I could install 390. Others will most likely 
not be as lucky. I was just sending up a flare making he assumption KDE 
developer will try to kick this up the chain. Once I found a work around 
I didn't care enough to diff the 340 and 390 APIs. 340 has been around a 
very long time an appears to be quite stable. My knee-jerk suspicion 
would be an API difference with "current" code written against newer 
API. You could be correct though. This could be a long latent bug now 
exposed.

What is interesting is the fact this didn't surface until KDE pushed out 
recent updates. After that the crash happened with each boot. Before 
that, nada.

On 10/7/2019 9:29 AM, Sérgio Martins wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 11:22 PM Roland Hughes
> <roland at logikalsolutions.com> wrote:
>> Just in case this is deeper than the ksplashqml.
>>
>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408904
>>
>> Don't know if it is specific to KDE or deeper within Qt. Appears to
>> happen with nvidia-340 driver but doesn't happen with nvidia-driver-390
>> installed.
> If the "display crashes", goes black for all apps and it's only repro
> on an older nvidia driver, as stated in the bug report, then I'd say
> the bug is not in Qt, but in the nvidia 340 driver.
>
> If you hope for a workaround in Qt then better get a minimal test-case.
>
> Regards,
> Sergio

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