- You see the NVIDIA splash screen (logo on white)
- This screen changes to some other screen (presumably a login screen)
- KDE tries to do something, and this doesn't work (from what you've pasted, it looks like it crashes the X server?)
Is this right?
A bit puzzled,
Duraid
Richard Harke wrote:
On Friday 26 March 2004 01:57 pm, David Mosberger wrote:
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 19:36:55 +1100, Duraid Madina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Duraid> You'll probably want to use a newer nvidia driver (from Duraid> nvidia.com) or move libc back down. I don't think you have Duraid> any other choices.
A word of warning with the nvidia driver: it's important to use the driver with a "matching" XFree86 server. AFAIK, the current nvidia drivers work with all version of XFree86 v4.3.x, but NOT with v4.4.x. Apparently, there is some version-checking support in the X server which could detect such mismatches, but the nvidia driver doesn't seem to do that and as a result, it will load into XFree86 v4.4.xx just fine, except that it will then sooner or later crash with a segfault.
--david
Well, I went to a newer nvidia driver, 1.0-5336 (NVIDIA-Linux-ia64-1.0-5336-pkg1.run there was also a "pkg0" version in the ftp archive, but I guess that was an oops)
Now X starts but KDE will not run
(II) Initializing extension GLX
startkde: Starting up...
/usr/X11R6/bin/kde: line 143: 14986 Segmentation fault kreadconfig --file
kpersonalizerrc --group General --key FirstLogin --default true --type bool
_X11TransOpen: Unable to find transport for local
ksplash: cannot connect to X server :0
Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory
ksmserver: cannot connect to X server :0
startkde: Shutting down...
Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory
Error: Can't contact kdeinit!
startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
startkde: Done.
I think that the _X11TransOpen failure is the key one but I don't understand what it means precisely. There were messages during boot up about "no response from localhost" Does that mean that some demon is not running?? I can ping localhost and a lot of others. Also, ftp to nvidia and apt-get to debian have worked fine.
Richard Harke
