Re: Sig 11 on switching from X to console

Michael wrote:
I have posted something almost identical to this in the nVidia forum - I
am sorry if that counts as a cross-posting here. Also, I do feel that I
need the nVidia binary driver - it would be nice if no-one responds just
to tell me not to use closed source (it is the only closed-source software
I have).

Ok here goes :

Can anyone help me to get a handle on this problem - it may turn out to be
distro-specific (Arch Linux), but at the moment the distro forum is not
producing any ideas.

I have a GeForce FX 5500. I have just updated to my distro's packages of
the 169.09 driver and utils running under kernel 2.6.24 and X.Org X Server
1.4.0.90. I boot into a console and start X with "startx". Everything runs
perfectly until I drop back into a console while X is running (ctrl-alt-
f1). Usually (not always), this crashes X on a Sig 11 :

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x7e) [0x80baf4e]
1: [0xb7fc1420]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting

I am not the only person to have this problem, but others don't see it at
all.

I upgraded the kernel at the same time as the nVidia stuff, so I have no
experience of the current driver under my previous kernel.

I don't know where to begin even in working out a test for how to isolate
or narrow down the problem.

Any ideas please?


My advice is to use the official Nvidia driver installer, rather than
distro packages, and build the module yourself with the installer. The
downside of this, if it does work, is that everytime you update your
kernel, you have to rebuild the module.

If that doesn't help then use the email address for nvidia driver bugs
on the nvidia site.


George
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