Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Thursday 10 September 2009 06:00:08 Dudu Loschi wrote:

> I've had this issue today with a new KDE 4.3.1 installation (actually
> not so new, it was running fine for 4 days). I decided to track down
> what was probably causing this issue since it apparently to came from
> nowhere.
> Well, after testing some configurations I realized that changing fonts
> size (specially menu's font) could lead to this problem, but reverting
> the size didn't solved.
> Them I started changing xorg.conf and found an workaround: disable
> BackingStore. I've tested several times and the crash never happened
> with BackingStore off. And I actually turned it on yesterday, so at
> least on my system that's the cause of the crash.
> So if you are experiencing this and have BackingStore on, disable it.
> If you don't have BackingStore enable try changing some other
> configuration in xorg.conf, it may help.

I agree with Dudu, nvidia-drivers is the likely culprit. There were huge 
problems in the early days of KDE-4, it's very possible that bugs are still 
lurking.

A useful site to trawl looking for similar problems and solutions:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14

It's a semi-official announce site for nVidia plus general Forum. The driver 
devs read the list and respond to major issues.

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