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Did my pacman -Syu today, and installed the new X.org, new kernel, and new nvidia drivers. Initially, i was getting the RgbPath issue but that was fixed pretty quickly.
Then startx started complaining about the kernel module and nvidia driver being different versions (driver was 177.82, kernel was 177.80). I reinstalled nvidia and kernel26, and that was fixed.
BUT the fun's not over yet - at this point, startx works fine and starts X as one would expect it to. However, at the end of the KDE loading/splash screen X immediately crashes and I'm back in the console. Before this happens, my desktop shows up for a brief moment and looks alright - Plasma is there and my wallpaper is there, but it inevitably crashes again as soon as that pops up. So far I've tried reinstalling xorg-server and KDEmod, as well as running nvidia-xconfig. Watching the terminal output from startx doesn't help much, as KDirWatch spams messages so fast that anything else that pops up disappears within half a second.
I'm not exactly the best with Linux (Arch is my first distro), and at this point I'm out of ideas... so I take it to you, the ever-knowledgeable community! xorg.conf follows.
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder58) Tue Nov 4 17:18:57 PST 2008
# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder58) Wed Oct 1 15:13:37 PDT 2008
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Evdev Mouse" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
# RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "extmod"
Load "xtrap"
Load "record"
Load "dbe"
Load "freetype"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Evdev Mouse"
Driver "evdev"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/event2"
Option "Name" "SteelSeries ApS Ikari Laser"
Option "evBits" "+1-2"
Option "keyBits" "~272-287"
Option "relBits" "~0-2 ~6 ~8"
Option "Pass" "3"
Option "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "NEC LCD2490WUXi"
HorizSync 31.0 - 92.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 85.0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "G70 [GeForce 7600 GT]"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce 7600 GT"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "NoLogo" "True"
Option "RenderAccel" "True"
Option "TripleBuffer" "True"
Option "BackingStore" "True"
Option "PixmapCacheSize" "300000"
Option "OnDemandVBlankInterrupts" "True"
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSectionLast edited by JooBlixlarz (2008-12-02 20:26:28)
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i've got similar issues after today's update. At the beginning it was almost OK: I've got only broken systray icons (black space instead of icons) and random KDE crashes which returned me to KDM login screen.
I disabled desktop effects - it fixed systray , but random logouts were still there.
After some system reboots (I played with nvidia-beta from AUR), suddenly i couldn't log into KDE anymore. My session was terminated right after login - I was thrown to KDM login screen. I deleted my .kde4 directory - no changes.
my workaround - downgrade of xorg-server back to 1.4.2-2.
My system:
GF 8600 GT (with nvidia 177.82)
KDEmod 4.1.3
Architecture: x86_64
raku
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look at the message http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 76#p456876
may be it will help you.
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How do I set my keyboard layout to evdev without being in KDE?
Edit: Tried some more stuff - the "AutoAddDevices" "False" in xorg.conf didn't work, and neither did deleting .kde4.
Last edited by JooBlixlarz (2008-12-01 23:19:28)
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Have you tried setting "BackingStore" to "False"? I didn't have this problem (even after the update), but it spontaneously surfaced for no apparent reason. I came across this suggestion (which worked for me):
http://forum.kde.org/showthread.php?tid … 44#pid7344
Last edited by shimage (2008-12-02 01:28:43)
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I had the same problem like JooBlixlarz, and I was able to solve it by setting "BackingStore" to "False" as shimage proposed.
Thanks shimage.
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Setting "BackingStore" to "False" worked for me
I had it set to True before this so I couldn't even get onto a KDE desktop for a while. Luckly XFCE was working fine.
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Thanks very much to shimage and patrick at the KDE forums - fixed now!
On a side note, simply adding the BackingStore option to my xorg.conf didn't work; I had to create a new one, with only a Device section, before X worked again.
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