Interesting. I’m trying to figure out if my MBP has a faulty logic board (with the GPU). I found lots of people complaining about this on the net and apparently for a while there Apple was replacing Logic boards on my model year MBP, but they stopped doing it now, I guess I didn’t find out about it in time. The thing is, the problem has only come up with Logic Pro…and since I stopped using Totalspaces, also haven’t had the problem either.
So I don’t know if I still need to go to my Genius Appt to have my logic board checked, or if this kernel panic is to be expected, even from a perfectly healthy logic board and GPU. It sounds like you’re saying it could potentially happen even for perfectly healthy hardware. Usually kernel panics are from not so healthy hardware or drivers or conflicts between hardware of some kind. It could be that whatever you’re doing in Totalspaces is getting down and dirty with the hardware enough to push the machine into some kind of conflict over resources that would not normally happen… Or…it could be the hardware is dying and I need to beg Apple to fix it. Right now I’m trying to run without Totalspaces to see if I can get the failure to happen without Totalspaces… but so far, no luck. I can actually live without it and get used to Mission Control once and for all though I miss the grid overview already. But mainly I need to figure out whether the problem is software related or hardware related at the moment.