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From: Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] problem with nvidia card -- could it be hardware?
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 11:59:16
Message-Id: 20140620135743.4dd4f8e0@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] problem with nvidia card -- could it be hardware? by covici@ccs.covici.com
1 On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 04:58:24 -0400
2 covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
3
4 > Hi. I am using the nvidia GeForce GT 430 for years and suddenly
5 > within the last few days, if I start gdm, it gives me an error, no
6 > screens found and dumpss core and if I let it go it will keep dumping
7 > core and filling up my root partition. It works with my frame
8 > buffer, but no longer with gdm or even startx. So is this some kind
9 > of strange hardware glitch? I did downgrade the nvidia driver, but
10 > no joy.
11 >
12 > Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
13 >
14
15 See
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17 https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Backtraces
18
19 on how to obtain a backtrace from it; this backtrace provides you more
20 information about what went wrong, such that it can be further debugged.
21
22 It boils down to recompiling the package and its library dependencies
23 with debug flags, after which you can run a new core file through gdb.
24
25 --
26 With kind regards,
27
28 Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
29 Gentoo Developer
30
31 E-mail address : TomWij@g.o
32 GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D
33 GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D

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