I am running xorg-server-1.3.0.0-r6, xorg 7.2 with nvidia-drivers-173.14.09. Soon after I start an X session, whether with startx or xdm, X crashes with the following error:
Backtrace: 0: X(xf86SigHandler+0x6f) [0x4b673f] 1: /lib/libc.so.6 [0x2af235b3aea0] 2: X(ValidatePicture+0x24) [0x5725a4] 3: X(CompositePicture+0xa5) [0x572c05] 4: X(miTrapezoids+0x4e6) [0x56ed66] 5: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so [0x2af2377fdf05] Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting I tried switching to nv (2.1.9) but it crashes, once again, this time with the following error: Backtrace: 0: X(xf86SigHandler+0x6f) [0x4b673f] 1: /lib/libc.so.6 [0x2ad3bda59ea0] 2: X(ValidatePicture+0x24) [0x5725a4] 3: X(CompositePicture+0xa5) [0x572c05] 4: X(miTrapezoids+0x4e6) [0x56ed66] 5: X [0x57dffb] 6: X(Dispatch+0x1ca) [0x45ab2a] 7: X(main+0x46b) [0x43816b] 8: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4) [0x2ad3bda475a4] 9: X(BitOrderInvert+0x151) [0x437229] Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting I have tried re-emerging xorg and switching to an older version of nvidia-drivers, to no avail. # emerge --info Portage 2.1.4.5 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.24-tuxonice-r9 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.24-tuxonice-r9 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ Timestamp of tree: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:15:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4, 2.5.2-r3 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/cmake: 2.4.7 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.2.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=athlon64 -fomit-frame-pointer -finline-functions -floop-optimize2 -funroll-loops -fvariable-expansion-in-unroller -fpeel-loops -funswitch-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=athlon64 -fomit-frame-pointer -finline-functions -floop-optimize2 -funroll-loops -fvariable-expansion-in-unroller -fpeel-loops -funswitch-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo http://gentoo.binarycompass.org ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/ ftp://files.gentoo.org ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/GENTOO ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/initng /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.ca.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aalib acl acpi alsa amd64 audiofile berkdb bzip2 cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt curl curlwrappers doc dri dvd dvdr emacs encode examples expat fbcon firefox flac flash fortran ftp gd gdbm gif glut gpm guile iconv ieee1394 imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog jabber jack javascript joystick jpeg jpeg2k kerebros krb4 ldap leim libcaca lm_sensors loop-aes mad midi mime ming mmap mmx mng mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg openal opengl openmp pcntl pcre pdf perl png portaudio pppd python readline reflection sasl sctp session slang sndfile snmp soap sockets source spl sse sse2 ssl svg svgalib sysfs szip tcpd unicode usb vorbis xinetd xorg xosd xpm xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint i810 intel mach64 mga neomagic nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa vga via vmware voodoo" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS Any help is greatly appreciated.