Good Day . . .

I have absolutely no idea what is causing this problem so I will start here and hopefully someone can redirect me. I am using Debian Testing up-to-date.

Got a problem. The problem started about a month ago but every attempt at finding a cause has proved negative.

My monitor is set to go to sleep after 30 minutes of inactivity. About 30 to 40% of the time when it wakes up:
- all visible apps are titlebarless (new word)
- all sub-forms (i.e. open, save) are also titlebarless
- internal functions work on apps such as File>Quit
- the bottom hiding panel stays hidden
- desktop folders open
- Ctrl-Alt-Delete/Backspace does nothing although they work normally
- Ctrl-Alt-F1 takes me to the CLI - Ctrl-Alt-F7 brings me back

In the CLI, sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop/start brings me back to normal.

I have removed, purged, installed many packages with no luck.

My searches shows no one else with my problem.

Does anyone have any ideas?
All ideas graciously accepted.

Thanks

Paul

What graphics card/chipset do you use, and which driver? Can you try running "kwin --replace" in a terminal when the problem occurs and see whether it fixes the problem?

Thank You for the reply. Appreciate it.

Courtesy of inxi:
Card ATI Redwood PRO [Radeon HD 5500 Series] X.Org 1.10.1 Res: 1920x1080@60.0hz GLX Renderer Mesa DRI R600 (REDWOOD 68D9) 20090101 x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE2 TCL DRI2 GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.10.2 Direct Rendering Yes


Additionally the Xorg Radeon driver appears to be working.
From dmesg | grep drm:
[ 4.647951] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[ 4.765917] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
[ 4.767442] [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (REDWOOD 0x1002:0x68D9).
[ 4.767501] [drm] register mmio base: 0xFE6E0000
[ 4.767536] [drm] register mmio size: 131072
[ 4.774860] [drm] Detected VRAM RAM=1024M, BAR=256M
[ 4.774902] [drm] RAM width 128bits DDR
[ 4.775126] [drm] radeon: 1024M of VRAM memory ready
[ 4.775162] [drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready.
[ 4.775215] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 1 (10.10.2010).
[ 4.775250] [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query.
[ 4.775380] [drm] radeon: irq initialized.
[ 4.775417] [drm] GART: num cpu pages 131072, num gpu pages 131072
[ 4.775814] [drm] Loading REDWOOD Microcode
[ 4.858412] [drm] ring test succeeded in 1 usecs
[ 4.858516] [drm] radeon: ib pool ready.
[ 4.858599] [drm] ib test succeeded in 0 usecs
[ 4.858867] [drm] Radeon Display Connectors
[ 4.858912] [drm] Connector 0:
[ 4.858953] [drm] HDMI-A
[ 4.858987] [drm] HPD4
[ 4.859022] [drm] DDC: 0x6450 0x6450 0x6454 0x6454 0x6458 0x6458 0x645c 0x645c
[ 4.859060] [drm] Encoders:
[ 4.859102] [drm] DFP1: INTERNAL_UNIPHY2
[ 4.859148] [drm] Connector 1:
[ 4.859186] [drm] DVI-I
[ 4.859220] [drm] HPD1
[ 4.859255] [drm] DDC: 0x6460 0x6460 0x6464 0x6464 0x6468 0x6468 0x646c 0x646c
[ 4.859293] [drm] Encoders:
[ 4.859334] [drm] DFP2: INTERNAL_UNIPHY1
[ 4.859382] [drm] CRT1: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_DAC1
[ 4.859419] [drm] Connector 2:
[ 4.859453] [drm] VGA
[ 4.859488] [drm] DDC: 0x6430 0x6430 0x6434 0x6434 0x6438 0x6438 0x643c 0x643c
[ 4.859527] [drm] Encoders:
[ 4.859573] [drm] CRT2: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_DAC2
[ 4.917311] [drm] Internal thermal controller without fan control
[ 4.917381] [drm] radeon: power management initialized
[ 4.991719] [drm] fb mappable at 0xD0141000
[ 4.991755] [drm] vram apper at 0xD0000000
[ 4.991791] [drm] size 8294400
[ 4.991825] [drm] fb depth is 24
[ 4.991860] [drm] pitch is 7680
[ 4.991938] fbcon: radeondrmfb (fb0) is primary device
[ 5.208855] fb0: radeondrmfb frame buffer device
[ 5.208856] drm: registered panic notifier
[ 5.208860] [drm] Initialized radeon 2.8.0 20080528 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0

I will try your suggestion. The menu doesn't display so I will create a terminal desktop icon.

I'll get back to you within a day or so.

The original problem has been made redundant by some updates from xorg. After the updates - no issues. The issue has been completely put to sleep by 300 KDE 4.6.3 updates today.

Now I am sure that I will have different issues. Ain't it fun.

Thank You

If your problem has been properly solved, please mark this topic as such with the green tick mark icon. Thank you!

Thank You for the message einar.

I thought I marked it as solved, sort of.

I looked for your green tick marked icon but all I can find is a green happy face.

Please give me a location.

Thank You.

I've marked the thread as solved now.