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thibdb13

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From: Mechelen - Belgium

Registered: 2005-10-11

Posts: 114

Xorg crashes when gaming

Hello
Xorg crashes systematically when I play such games as Supertuxkart, Supertux, 0ad, Ennemy-Territory, Pingus,... It does also the same with google-earth
I can start playing but after some time, I get a black screen, my keybord gets blocked and the only when out is to make a hard shutdown.
Stopping the computer "manually" has also the disadvantage that the Xorglog gets lost, so I cannot see what causes the problem.
I am using Arch x86_64 with the last nvidia driver (I have a GeForce GT320 card) and I have installed the lib32 packages that are going with the video drivers.
Any idea on how to solve this problem?
Thanks

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,693

Re: Xorg crashes when gaming

No suggestions, except that (on my system) the old /var/log/Xorg.0.log becomes /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old when the new /var/log/Xorg.0.log is created.

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Xorg crashes when gaming

I'm not an expert, but if only X crashed, you should be able to use REISUB https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Keyboard_Shortcuts
If you can't do even this, then it may be not just X, but the kernel.

Trilby

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Re: Xorg crashes when gaming

You've tried chaging to a tty right? (Ctl-Alt-F#)

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thibdb13

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From: Mechelen - Belgium

Registered: 2005-10-11

Posts: 114

Re: Xorg crashes when gaming

You've tried chaging to a tty right? (Ctl-Alt-F#)

Yes I did, but as I wrote, the keyboard does not react.