Re: Sig 11 on switching from X to console

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:23:47 +0000, George Peter Staplin wrote:

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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.

Thanks George,

I always used the nVidia installer when I was running slackware and LFS
before that, and its true to say that I never had a problem. I even
started with it when I switched to Arch 6 months ago. The rolling update
system on Arch (with which I have been very impressed indeed), eventually
made it more attractive to go down this route because I began to see
conflicts with other things. I will go back to the nVidia installer if I
have to.

Incidentally, I have been looking hard at my Xorg logs and comparing them
with those on a backup drive which has not been used for a few weeks. To
be honest, I don't usually pay attention to that log, because X "just
works", but I can't see any trace in the old log of the way that, at
present, whenever I switch to the console I have :

(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
(II) No APM support in BIOS or kernel
(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1440x900+0+0"
(II) PS/2 Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded

On those occasions when the switch causes X to crash, that is the last
entry in the log before the backtrace.

/M
.

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