Re: Nvidia driver lock-up (was (Re: Flightgear crashes (the program,not the pilot))
Am Montag, 9. Oktober 2006 03:38 schrieben Sie:
> Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> > Am Samstag, 7. Oktober 2006 03:38 schrieben Sie:
> >> Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> >>> Hi Russ,
> >>>
> >>> sry, my late answer, I did somehow miss your mail.
> >>>
> >>> Well, if nv crashes and nvidia without "Load GLX"-Option, then there
> >>> might be another non nvidia dependent problem.
> >>>
> >>> What does it show, if you disable "kdm" and start manually X with the
> >>> command "startx" from the shell ? Is there a difference between root
> >>> and normal user ?
> >>>
> >>> If starting with "startx" from the shell, you can see, what really
> >>> happens.
> >>>
> >>> In doubt, just send me the output and your /var/log/xorg.log.
> >>>
> >>> You can additionally start "startx" with the strace command. Just do
> >>> "strace startx" on the shell. Caution: This is a huge output. Just pipe
> >>> it into a file, so you can examine it later.
> >>>
> >>> Good luck and regards !
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Hans
> >>
> >> Hans,
> >> Per your suggestion, I ran strace startx, and piped the output to
> >> startx.log (attached). Also attached is /var/log/Xorg.0.log . I was
> >> running the nvidia driver for this test (config file also attached).
> >> After starting the Xserver, I tried to open my Home folder. The frame
> >> came up, but the files never appeared. SSH from another machine,
> >> and running top showed Xorg running 100% on one processor (I have
> >> a dual core machine).
> >> Any further advice or suggestions are most welcome. I am currently
> >> running with the Vesa driver, as it is stable (if slow).
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Russ
> >
> > Hi Russ,
> >
> > I looked at your attachements and I could see some things, you should
> > change:
> >
> > In xorg.conf there are the wrong paths for the fonts. Those have changed
> > since xorg is used ! Here are my entries:
> >
> > Section "Files"
> > FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server
> > # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
> > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
> > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
> > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
> > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
> > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
> > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/CID"
> > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
> > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
> > EndSection
> >
> >
> > Second thing:
> >
> > In xorg.conf cooment the section DRI out:
> >
> > # Section "DRI"
> > # Group "video"
> > # Mode 0666
> > # EndSection
> >
> > They are not used for Nvidia-cards.
> >
> > I will send you my xorg.conf from my Nvidia-computer later (this message
> > is written on my ATI-Notebook :=) ), so this one will not work as it
> > is for ATI.
> >
> > If everything fails, so you should create a very new xorg.conf. But just
> > don't do it with dpkg-reconfigure, do it using "xorgconfig" as root on a
> > shell.
> >
> > Answer the questions. Then save it as xorg.conf as suggested.
> >
> > At last change the entry for the video driver from "nv" to "nvidia" and
> > activate the Load GLX option.
> >
> > Do not forget to backup your old xorg.conf, so, if it works with the new
> > one, you can test why the old did not work.
> >
> > Good luck !
> >
> > Hans
>
> Hans,
> Thanks for the continued help. I tried the changes you suggested here,
Its a pleasure for me.
> but no help. I do not seem to have the command 'xorgconfig'. A search
> of packages on the Debian web site does not give a response either.
O.k., might be, this is no more in the pacgages, as I could not find it any
more. On my system it is no more, too. Sorry !
> Where can I find this program? I am at latest version of xbase-clients,
> but no such command is available to me.
Maybe some maintainer could answer this. I am wondering myself, now.
>
> Thanks,
> Russ
Did you test my xorg.conf I sent to you ?
Regards
Hans
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