Re: X crashes, black screen (video signal still there), and have to shutdown and power up.

Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
ANTant@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
As you are able to reproduce the error with 2D applications you should
try an opensource X.org driver and see if that helps. If X works fine
with an X.org driver you should probably not blame the bug on X.org but
go back with a more detailed bug report to nVidia.

What do I change in my xorg.conf?

There is a device section where you probably have a line which looks like
this:

Driver "nvidia"

Change that line to:

Driver "nv"
Or
Driver "vesa"

If the same device section also has some settings with options you might
have to comment those out as different drivers have different options. It
might be a good idea to comment out the line that loads the glx module.
Even though it would be possible to use glx with the nv and vesa driver in
software rendering only you will probably not be able to use glx with
those drivers as the installation of a binary nvidia driver has replaced
your OpenGL libraries.

Thanks Henrik.

I tried the default nv driver thatr comes with X.org. So, I changed Driver "nvidia" to Driver "nv".
I retested, and no X crash. I did get an one second pause when saw the newsgroup threads causing the
crash.

Now, I am thinking there is a NVIDIA driver problem or maybe incompatibility with Pan v0.14.2.91,
KDE v3.5.4, and xorg files:

# dpkg -l | grep ^ii |grep xorg
ii xorg 7.0.23 X.Org X Window System
ii xorg-dev 7.0.23 the X.Org X Window System
development librar
ii xserver-xorg 7.0.23 the X.Org X server
ii xserver-xorg-core 1.0.2-10 X.Org X server -- core server
ii xserver-xorg-dev 1.0.2-10 X.Org X server -- development
files
ii xserver-xorg-input-all 7.0.23 the X.Org X server -- input driver
metapacka
ii xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1.1.2-1 X.Org X server -- evdev input
driver
ii xserver-xorg-input-kbd 1.0.1.3-2 X.Org X server -- keyboard input
driver
ii xserver-xorg-input-mouse 1.0.4-3 X.Org X server -- mouse input
driver
ii xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 0.14.6-1 Synaptics TouchPad driver for
X.Org/XFree86
ii xserver-xorg-input-wacom 0.7.4.1-3 X.Org X server -- wacom input
driver
ii xserver-xorg-video-all 7.0.23 the X.Org X server -- output
driver metapack
Note: Didn't list the video drivers.
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