On Wed 06 Aug 2003 13:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted as excerpted below: > On 6 Aug 2003, Kamil Rezac wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I've just tried to run The Gimp (first run, it prepared to create the > > ~/.gimp dir) and the X just locked-up (L in ps) (no keyboard response, > > the mouse cursor moved and xmms played;) I've installed latest NVidia > > drivers a couple days ago, mybay that's the problem.... Has anyone the > > same experience? > > perhaps, try ssh-ing into your box and run a trace on X. If it is looping > all the time with sigalrm, then yes, it is a bug with nvidia drivers I am > experiencing as well. > > (I thought they fixed it, but all they did I think is disable renderaccel > by default, which makes it less likely to occur, but bug is still there, > at least IMHO, but who can tell without source..)
I was experiencing the same thing in KDE a couple KDE builds ago, but haven't real lately. However, in most cases anyway, I'm able to use the magic SysReq key combo (Alt-Srq-R, I have just the one computer so don't have anywhere else to log in from) for raw keyboard, and then switch to a different VC and kill (sigterm, not sigkill) kwrapper to bring X down at least a bit more gently. Note that my system is not the usual Cooker system, either in what's installed, or how I use X. First, I'm running a kernel.org kernel, not Mdk's. Second, I'm running Xinerama with three monitors, two of which are on my Nvidia GF2 card (necessitating running their driver, unfortunately, since the software libre nv driver couldn't drive dual monitors, last I checked, that's MY reason for having to use NVidia rather than NV), the third on an old S3Virge PCI card. Further, I have init 3 console level set as default, and start X/KDE from a console directly logged in as a user, rather than using a DM to log in from X. Therefore, kwrapper is a child of startkde, which is a child of xinit, which is (indirectly) started from a script launched from a console login, with said script starting KDE in the background, sleeping a few seconds, disowning its children, then exiting so I get the VC back for use if I desire. I thought it was the cooker build of KDE, not the NVidia drivers, but I might be wrong, and will try a trace next time, since you suggested it.. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin
