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nsf

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From: Yekaterinburg, Russia

Registered: 2007-09-15

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Another nvidia problem

I know that there are few topics about nvidia failures after upgrade, but I think my problem is somewhat different and weird.
I was using nvidia-beta driver for some time (really old one, older than current nvidia stable) and recently I updated to nvidia stable package. But Xorg freezes with black screen after start.

Here is "tail" from Xorg.log (looks like segfault?):

(II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFIXES
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFree86-Bigfont
(II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER
(II) Initializing built-in extension RANDR
(II) Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE
(II) Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE
(II) Initializing built-in extension XEVIE
(II) Initializing extension GLX

Backtrace:
0: X(xf86SigHandler+0x7e) [0x80e3a7e]
1: [0xb8068400]
2: X(main+0x2e5) [0x8073d35]
3: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb7e285c5]
4: X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x211) [0x80731f1]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting

Also links stuff (everything seems to be fine):

[nsf @ ~]$ ls -l /usr/lib | grep GL
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   285509 Май 19 18:26 libCgGL.so
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       15 Июл 26 22:53 libGL.so -> libGL.so.177.13
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       15 Июл 26 22:53 libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.177.13
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   660676 Июл 26 22:53 libGL.so.177.13
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   262410 Мар  3 15:32 libGLEW.a
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       16 Мар  3 15:32 libGLEW.so -> libGLEW.so.1.5.0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       16 Мар  3 15:32 libGLEW.so.1.5 -> libGLEW.so.1.5.0
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   292458 Мар  3 15:32 libGLEW.so.1.5.0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       11 Июн 22 14:08 libGLU.so -> libGLU.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       20 Июн 22 14:08 libGLU.so.1 -> libGLU.so.1.3.070003
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   581315 Июн 22 14:09 libGLU.so.1.3.070003
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       19 Июл 26 22:53 libGLcore.so.1 -> libGLcore.so.177.13
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 11211036 Дек 28  2007 libGLcore.so.169.07
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 13837928 Июл 26 22:53 libGLcore.so.177.13
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       11 Июн 22 14:08 libGLw.so -> libGLw.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       15 Июн 22 14:08 libGLw.so.1 -> libGLw.so.1.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root    13718 Июн 22 14:09 libGLw.so.1.0.0

I checked Xorg with vesa driver, everything works fine. Also I disabled all unnecessary nvidia options from xorg.conf, so it is really minimalistic. But xorg still freezes. Also I tried to install new nvidia-beta, no luck.

Video card: pci-e geforce 6800gt

I hate nvidia.

The only solution I think is to manually edit PKGBUILD and install the old one working driver.
Update:
Sorry, there is a similar thread already:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=50318

Last edited by nsf (2008-07-26 19:06:56)

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