Alers,<br><br>Need help before wife start asking for my Android Tablet :-)<br>Background:<br>Old VAIO laptop PCG-K23, 1 Gig RAM - good for downloading recipes, etc.<br>Running Fedora - up to 12 - never an issue<br>Had Mint 12 running. Everything fine till last upgrade/update. <br>
<br>The problem:<br>After the las update, X started to restart on its own.<br>Googling it points me to (several) problems with Firefox 17.<br>Install Chromium. Problem persists.<br><br>Install Mint 14 with MATE. Problem persists.<br>
Downgrade to Firefox 16 as it cured the issues for most. Not me.<br>Install Chromium again, it will not even load, gives me the "sorry" page.<br><br>TOP shows - with Firefox 16 running:<br>KiB Mem: 961700 total, 854236 used, 107464 free, 48272 buffers<br>
KiB Swap: 979964 total, 268 used, 979696 free, 434460 cached<br><br>Syslog shows:<br> chromium-browse[2797]: segfault at f94a47be ip f94a47be sp bfe0df3c error 4<br>Jan 2 17:39:53 laila-PCG-K23-UC kernel: [ 7192.640141] chromium-browse[2819]: segfault at f94a47be ip f94a47be sp bfe0df3c error 4<br>
Jan 2 17:39:56 laila-PCG-K23-UC kernel: [ 7195.537858] chromium-browse[2826]: segfault at f94a47be ip f94a47be sp bfe0df3c error 4<br>Jan 2 17:39:58 laila-PCG-K23-UC kernel: [ 7197.249233] chromium-browse[2834]: segfault at f94a47be ip f94a47be sp bfe0df3c error 4<br>
Jan 2 17:40:08 laila-PCG-K23-UC kernel: [ 7207.453878] chromium-browse[2841]: segfault at f94a47be ip f94a47be sp bfe0df3c error 4<br>Jan 2 17:40:21 laila-PCG-K23-UC kernel: [ 7220.015492] chromium-browse[2848]: segfault at f94a47be ip f94a47be sp bfe0df3c error 4<br>
Jan 2 17:57:39 laila-PCG-K23-UC x-session-manager[2483]: WARNING: Detected that screensaver has left the bus<br>Jan 2 17:57:39 laila-PCG-K23-UC mdm[2453]: WARNING: mdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0<br>
Jan 2 17:57:40 laila-PCG-K23-UC acpid: client 2463[0:0] has disconnected<br><br>Is the screensaver crapping out that is causing me to lose my Tablet?<br>She prefers Mint because it is(was ?) a more user friendly distro.<br>
Also, she misses the auto-complete on search field on FF17. Reinstalling FF16 did not solve the problem.<br>Adding this rule, <strong>browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled - true, </strong>in about:config did not work.<br>Help!<br>
<br>Sergio<br>