Re: [gentoo-user] Xwindows stopped working. No errors in Xorg log file.

[George Roberts <georoberts@gmail.com>]

Daevid Vincent wrote:

>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. 
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Richard Fish [mailto:bigfish@asmallpond.org] 
>>Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 10:18 PM
>>To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
>>Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xwindows stopped working. No 
>>errors in Xorg log file.
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>>Daevid Vincent wrote:
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>>>I run a pretty stable system. I do however run ~x86 for KDE 
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>>and Gnome.
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>>>Something changed recently in an "emerge -Davu world" or 
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>>"system" that
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>>>causes X to not start anymore? The Xorg log below doesn't 
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>>have any errors or
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>>>warnings or anything. There are no unresolved symbols as the 
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>>message says. I
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>>>did notice that glib was updated, but the 
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>>"3242-glibc-2.3.5.log" doesn't say
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>>>anything interesting. I ran "rm -rf /root/.revdep-rebuild.*; 
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>>revdep-rebuild
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>>>-av" and that said I was golden, it didn't re-compile a 
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>>single thing. 
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>>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).
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>>Some things to try:
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>>1. Disable Composite.
>>2. Disable DRI.
>>3. Try the x.org "nv" driver instead of "nvidia".
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>>Depending upon whether and which one of those work, you will have a 
>>place to start from on more debugging.
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>>-Richard
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>>>I usually use 'meld' (x-windows) for my etc-update, so I do 
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>>have some files
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>>>that need updating, but they don't seem that they should affect X??
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>>Probably not...more likely opengl or composite is causing the 
>>problem for X.
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>>-Richard
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What login manager are you using Gdm or Xdm, I have been using Gdm 
untill a while back and now after an update my X will not start using 
gdm in my /etc/rc.conf.  If I change it to Xdm in /etc/rc.conf or type 
it in manually then X starts  and  I can get in Gnome.  Changing the  
Nvidia drivers has had no effect.
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