[sclug] On ultra cheap machines

[Alex Butcher]

On Fri, 26 Apr 2013, Pieter Claassen wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Alex Butcher <lug at assursys.co.uk> wrote:
>       Yeah, not too bad, thanks. Apart from blindly buying hardware
>       with Intel
>       GPUs because "they're always well-supported by Linux and
>       Xorg"... :-)
> 
> 
> That is what I always thought as well. So I bough two of these?Intel Next
> Unit of Computing? recently. On paper the NUC's looked awesome, but I am
> having major problems with the HD4000 GPU.
> 
> Both of their X Windows under Ubuntu 12.04/12.10 and 13.04 gradually corrupt
> (it looks like the painted background of the windows turn black, rendering
> the fonts invisible). Then a few minutes later, the windows start turning
> light grey and eventually recover to only put you in the dark again some
> time later.
> 
> Screenshots don't show this weirdness.

Are you using a browser with the flash-plugin installed? Or does this just
happen spontaneously on an idle desktop?

If so, try disabling hardware acceleration in Flash; I've seen similar
sounding symptoms on nVidia hardware with their proprietary driver.

> Rgds,
> Pietr

HTH,
Alex