I tried to switch my window manager to Gnome and also XFCE (both worked fine before too) and that didn't solve the problem, so I don't think it's a KDE thing. But I have had KDE problems before as you suggest with other nvidia drivers.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Fish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 10:18 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xwindows stopped working. No > errors in Xorg log file. > > Daevid Vincent wrote: > > >I run a pretty stable system. I do however run ~x86 for KDE > and Gnome. > >Something changed recently in an "emerge -Davu world" or > "system" that > >causes X to not start anymore? The Xorg log below doesn't > have any errors or > >warnings or anything. There are no unresolved symbols as the > message says. I > >did notice that glib was updated, but the > "3242-glibc-2.3.5.log" doesn't say > >anything interesting. I ran "rm -rf /root/.revdep-rebuild.*; > revdep-rebuild > >-av" and that said I was golden, it didn't re-compile a > single thing. > > > > > > One of the things we just discovered on this list is that > newer versions > of KDE are trying to use things like the Composite extension, > and it is > causing problems for some people (slowness was the previous case). > > Some things to try: > > 1. Disable Composite. > 2. Disable DRI. > 3. Try the x.org "nv" driver instead of "nvidia". > > Depending upon whether and which one of those work, you will have a > place to start from on more debugging. > > -Richard > > > >I usually use 'meld' (x-windows) for my etc-update, so I do > have some files > >that need updating, but they don't seem that they should affect X?? > > > > > > > > Probably not...more likely opengl or composite is causing the > problem for X. > > > -Richard > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- [email protected] mailing list
