Re: x-crash (please decipher my log file)

[hugo vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Niels L. Ellegaard wrote:
> I recently updated my xfree from 4.0 to 4.3 (sarge). Suddenly my x
> stopped working. I would be grateful if someone could help me decipher
> my log file. 
>
> My XF86Conf-4 is almost directly created by dpkg-reconfigure. However
> I removed the part about the generic mouse because I got a complaint
> that I did not have the device /dev/input/mice (I don't know how to
> create it... I make a symbolic link, and it get's deleted)
>
> When I write dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 I get an error saying
> "open_sock() No such device". Afterwards I get errors saying that the
> configlets ofxserver-common and timezoneconf are bad.
>
> In dmesg I have a lot of messages like the following
> atkdb.c: Unknown key released (tanslated set 2, code 0x7 on isa0060/serio0)
> atkbd.c: This is an XFREE86 bug. It shouldn't access hardware directly
>
> Would it help if I started XFree86 in gdb to create a log?
>
>                       Thanks in advance
>
>                               Niels

Well, I think it is a bug. No (EE) and just segfault!? So what I would 
do is use the Nvidia closed-source driver. I always use it and always 
have good results. Just download:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_archive.html

and pick 4496 or 4363. The reason I say that is because I am running now 
with 4620 and I don't see that one.

The only hitch with running their script is that they need your 
kernel-headers, so install them. It will install nvidia.o into 
../kernel/drivers/video so put nvidia into /etc/modules.

Then in your XF86Config-4 change "nv" to "nvidia".

I don't get the kernel-headers because I roll my own kernel, also run 
the latest Sarge and X-4.3.0

Hugo.