Re: XF86 crashes when logging out, NVIDIA driver...

From: Thomas Otto (my21stnewsgroupdevnull_at_gmx.net)
Date: 10/22/03 

Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 00:00:22 +0200

[...]
> When loging out from the session (regadles user), the screen blinks twice (as
> it should), but after that the screen becomes natrually black, the system has
> frocen totally, only thing to do is press the reset button on the computer case.
[...]

Not that I knew a solution, but anyhow:

I had a similar Problem with my GeForce2 and 4 on several SuSE systems,
notably both with nv and nvidia (open/closed source) drivers: Upon
exiting X or switching from X to a Console I would sometimes get weird
color on the screen and the PC would freeze.
I had the impression that it was more likely to happen if I
Ctrl-Alt-Fx'ed from a GL game to a Console.

It went away with the following simultaneous 3 Changes, I didn't have
the motivation to figure out which one actually resolved it:
I switched to Debian (finally), Xfree86 is 4.3 (4.3.0-0ds4) just as with
my last SuSE; new 2.4.22 Kernel and new Nvidia 1.0-4496 drivers - now
the system is 100% stable.

What remains is an obsession to type 'sync' whenever I switch from or to
an X display.

YMMV

     -Thomas

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