From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DvTgM-0003Lh-Jj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 05:33:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6L5VbPr027674; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 05:31:37 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.200]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6L5Rds7015960 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 05:27:40 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id o1so55715nzf for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 22:27:54 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=dNYhFbYiani9N2pxEIWblppwmlkXBuimLFrM87fcBLhUW+E7LMas251VM2rc4DtDTLcEyLmpn7KJ92tTwOWA80H67n1r97f3BKPxmBBaHYhLcbBPkLTnM65XHWNy5DnXAk0cE9y6QNyznaVXiaCTYmlvwAAmmRxjY14SfPxvORM= Received: by 10.36.84.5 with SMTP id h5mr717528nzb; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 22:27:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.40? ([69.146.56.6]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id r15sm2192039nza.2005.07.20.22.27.22; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 22:27:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42DF323F.6060900@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 23:27:27 -0600 From: George Roberts User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (X11/20050717) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xwindows stopped working. No errors in Xorg log file. References: <200507202026.j6KKQdFS027557@robin.gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200507202026.j6KKQdFS027557@robin.gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9a116ac8-d5e2-4c6a-b57d-3b68ecd9a09b X-Archives-Hash: 77465780598ac58ca94d6bb778d39c53 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. > > > >>-----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. >> >>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 >> >>-- >>gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list >> >> >> >> > > > 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. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list