Re: Mystery on my laptop: KDE + nvidia + X + wheezy/sid
On Sat, 7 May 2011 19:43:05 -0400, Brad wrote in message
<[🔎] BANLkTikp0A+X5QbueQZjxe2Je54R83VJ0w@mail.gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I originally posted a thread to debian-kde, thread located at
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2011/04/msg00140.html. I am hoping
> someone here might have some idea.
>
> The problem in a nutshell is that my workstation is running sid and my
> laptop (Dell Latitude E6500) running sid. Both have nvidia cards, and
> are running the non-free drivers (260.19.44-1). I upgraded the
> desktop to kde 4.6.2 after it hit the experimental-snapshots. The
> upgrade went perfectly, and I am running 4.6.2 on the workstation. On
> the laptop, things did not go so well...Once I upgraded, any time I
> started a KDE app (be it the K menu, or any KDE app) it would crash X
> or the nvidia driver or something (the backtrace is listed in the
> thread above).
>
> I thought it was something in kde 4.6.2, but I rebuilt the laptop,
> upgraded to sid, left kde 4.4.5 on it, and had the same problem.
> Ended up rebuilding again and leaving it running squeeze until I can
> track down the problem. Meanwhile, the desktop is running fine...I
> verified the versions of nvidia, kernel, xorg, kde, etc.
>
> Any ideas where the problem might lie?
..WAG: synapti[c|k]s touch pad driver killing your X or evdev
or kde session?
Tried plugging in external rodents or keyboards?
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