Re: Segfault of kdm
On Samstag, 18. November 2000 14:35, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Christian Mayrhuber wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm running woody with xfree864 .0.1-4 and KDE2.
> > Every time I try to start kdm ist crashes after a second with a segfault.
> > It doesn't manage to display the login window before the crash.
>
> Same here. I think I might know why.
>
> > The kdm package version is 2.0-final-5. The crash happened with release
> > 4, too.
> > Btw: xdm runs fine.
>
> The difference is that kdm has OpenGL support.
>
> > Before my conversion from SuSE to Debian I experienced the same behaviour
> > in the SuSE kde2-rc3 packages, but it was gone in the final.
> > I don't know if it matters, my CPU is a K6-2 and my graphics card has a
> > TNT chip on it.
>
> Mine too. I think this is the problem. Are you using the Nvidia driver
> from XFree86 4.01 (nv) or Nvidias' own driver (nvdriver) and their own GL
> support?
Yes, its their own OpenGL support.
Looks like the binary compatibility between Mesa and OpenGL needs to be
sorted out between the XF4 development team and Nvida/SGI.
The nvidia driver is version 0.9.5, maybe we see a agpgart/Mesa compatible
one with version 1.0 and XF4.0.2
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