Am Donnerstag, 10. September 2009 schrieb Dudu Loschi:

> > Hi guys,
> >
> > until now I've been quite a KDE4 hater, but I'm willing to give it a try
> > from time to time. So I installed 4.3 parallel to my beloved 3.5.10 and
> > was quite pleased with it. However, I have repeating crashes of my entire
> > X. Mostly it happens when I open Konsole, the next often occasion is
> > opening a menu (main menu, context menu, you name it), but also only
> > after a Konsole windows was opened. All I see is a quick error message
> > about glibc, then X restarts and I'm back at kdm.
> >
> > I use a laptop with a Geforce 7600 GPU, running on nvidia-drivers-180.60.

> 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.

A great many thanks to you, I've just tried it and it seems to have the effect 
you described. I'll dig into it further. But now of course I'm trapped 
between two worlds - stay with my sceen efficient and faster 3.5, or begin a 
liason with 4.3 for the benefits it provides, but also with its latent 
lagginess. *ponder ponder*
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