Bug#224708:
On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 03:52, Ben Okopnik wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 10:57:22PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 21:17, Warren Turkal wrote:
> > > Does the reporter of this bug have a Radeon or some type.
> >
> > I don't think he got your followup; sending this to -submitter so he
> > sees it.
>
> Nope, don't have a Radeon. The machine is a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop,
> with an nVidia GeForce2Go.
>
> > > Flightgear locks my computer after some time, and I have a Radeon. The
> > > last version of Flightgear locked my computer up on start.
> >
> > If you're using the 3D driver from XFree86 4.3, I'm afraid that's to be
> > expected.
>
> Mine is 4.3.0.1; perhaps this is part of the problem.
The problem is much more likely due to the proprietary nvidia drivers.
> > There's a difference between a lockup and a server crash though; the
> > latter is unlikely to be related to the 3D driver, unless proprietary
> > drivers are being used or something perhaps. The submitter should
> > provide the full server log and config file and if applicable preferably
> > even a backtrace from xserver-xfree86-dbg.
>
> I'm attaching the server log from a previous crash, as well as the
> conffile. Please let me know how to generate that backtrace, and I'll
> happily send it along.
xserver-xfree86-dbg doesn't work with proprietary drivers, so you'd have
to use some tricks with the normal, modular server, but it will likely
point to the nvidia driver anyway, at which point only nVidia can do
anything.
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