Am Donnerstag 20 August 2009 01:34:43 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger:
> 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.
> First I had 4.3.0 installed from main portage tree, but I had a faint
> hope they would have fixed it by now, so I installed the live slot from
> kde-testing. I already had this issue with older version.

Just for the archive: the problem was solved by disabling BackingStore for 
nvidia-drivers in xorg.conf. It's a common problem with nvidia, see 
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283331
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