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atc

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2008-05-27

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[SOLVED] X crashes in dual monitor setup when holding a key down

Hey,

I recently installed Arch64 and it's just great. Except for one thing.
When I run dual monitor (set up with nvidia-settings), if I hold down a key like backspace or the arrows inside an application like pidgin, firefox or vim, X will just crash. Sometimes I even have to restart the computer because the screen is just blank.

What can be wrong?

I use xorg, xf86-video-nvidia and hal. It works perfectly fine with just one monitor. Please ask for additional information if you need it to answer the question.

Last edited by atc (2009-05-04 20:38:08)

ao

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From: 青

Registered: 2008-02-02

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Re: [SOLVED] X crashes in dual monitor setup when holding a key down

Fixed with: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25785

atc

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Registered: 2008-05-27

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Re: [SOLVED] X crashes in dual monitor setup when holding a key down

Thanks, seems like the right way to go. But how do I go about installing it?

It requires libgl, but libgl conflicts with nvidia-utils.

Right now I've removed nvidia, installed libgl and then xorg-server-warnaud, and yes, I have X now. But it runs single monitor on the vesa driver. Normally I use nvidia-settings to generate my xorg.conf. Do I really have to set it up to dual monitor myself?

Ideal setup would be xorg-server-warnaud, nvidia and dual monitor. Any help on a procedure?

EDIT: Oh, and I'm also unable to fullscreen mplayer with the current setup.

Last edited by atc (2009-05-04 14:54:27)

ao

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From: 青

Registered: 2008-02-02

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Re: [SOLVED] X crashes in dual monitor setup when holding a key down

libgl is only required for the build, you can now install nvidia and nvidia-utils and proceed just like you had the regular xorg-server package

atc

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Registered: 2008-05-27

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Re: [SOLVED] X crashes in dual monitor setup when holding a key down

Thanks a lot. I think it works now.

I wrote a small blog post at http://anderstornvig.dk/2009/05/12/x-cr … ver-1-6-1/ that should sum up how I did.

Last edited by atc (2009-05-16 16:23:10)