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Re: Segfault of kdm



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?

-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>



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