RE: [gentoo-user] Xwindows stopped working. No errors in Xorg log file.

[Daevid Vincent]

I tried to switch my window manager to Gnome and also XFCE (both worked fine
before too) and that didn't solve the problem, so I don't think it's a KDE
thing. But I have had KDE problems before as you suggest with other nvidia
drivers. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Fish [mailto:bigfish@××××××××××.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 10:18 PM
> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xwindows stopped working. No
> errors in Xorg log file.
>
> Daevid Vincent wrote:
>
> >I run a pretty stable system. I do however run ~x86 for KDE
> and Gnome.
> >Something changed recently in an "emerge -Davu world" or
> "system" that
> >causes X to not start anymore? The Xorg log below doesn't
> have any errors or
> >warnings or anything. There are no unresolved symbols as the
> message says. I
> >did notice that glib was updated, but the
> "3242-glibc-2.3.5.log" doesn't say
> >anything interesting. I ran "rm -rf /root/.revdep-rebuild.*;
> revdep-rebuild
> >-av" and that said I was golden, it didn't re-compile a
> single thing.
> >
> >
>
> One of the things we just discovered on this list is that
> newer versions
> of KDE are trying to use things like the Composite extension,
> and it is
> causing problems for some people (slowness was the previous case).
>
> Some things to try:
>
> 1. Disable Composite.
> 2. Disable DRI.
> 3. Try the x.org "nv" driver instead of "nvidia".
>
> Depending upon whether and which one of those work, you will have a
> place to start from on more debugging.
>
> -Richard
>
>
> >I usually use 'meld' (x-windows) for my etc-update, so I do
> have some files
> >that need updating, but they don't seem that they should affect X??
> >
> >
> >
>
> Probably not...more likely opengl or composite is causing the
> problem for X.
>
>
> -Richard
>
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