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jduped

Member

From: Canada

Registered: 2009-03-12

Posts: 58

Xserver crashing

hey...

I'm having an issue with random or what appear to be random xserver crashes since getting the newest updates.

I thought perhaps it was my video driver so I rebooted with out x starting, removed the driver, unloaded the module manually with rmmod.
Rebooted, then installed the newest driver. 
Started X.
Everything seems ok.
Then at random times I'm thrown out of my logged in session and back to the login screen.

I have no errors in my X log.

and everything was working prior to the update.

Any ideas?  Any one else dealing with this?

I'm using an nvidia card.

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Blazeix

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Registered: 2006-10-26

Posts: 25

Re: Xserver crashing

I'm not sure if this is your exact issue, but if you search around you'll see there have been a bunch of xserver/nvidia errors since the last update. Right now, there are two workarounds: You can upgrade to nvidia-beta (in AUR) or downgrade to nvidia-utils-185.18.14-1-i686 and nvidia-185.18.14-1-i686.

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=77131

loafer

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From: the pub

Registered: 2009-04-14

Posts: 1,772

Re: Xserver crashing

There have also been numerous posts regarding the issue described here:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=77351

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jduped

Member

From: Canada

Registered: 2009-03-12

Posts: 58

Re: Xserver crashing

Thanks

I'll check those links out.

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