xorg && 7-current && ( kde || nvidia driver ) == desktop crash

[Marc G. Fournier]

Hi Deb ...

   was this vs compiling from source?

On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Deb Heller-Evans wrote:

> Oops.  Brain FART... I'm in a multi-OS environment... My answer was with 
> respect to a different OS, but it might be applicable to FreeBSD.  I don't 
> have experience with nVidia on FreeBSD.
>
> Deb Heller-Evans
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>
> Deb Heller-Evans wrote:
>> I ran into the same kind of issue.  FWIW, I had better luck downloading the 
>> nVidia drivers from the website which includes modifying the kernel.  I can 
>> now do all kinds of extra things, like spanning 2 monitors, etc (on 
>> workstations).
>> I can dig up my notes if you intend to go this route at some point...
>> 
>> d
>> 
>> Deb Heller-Evans
>> Energy Science Network
>> MS-50A-3101
>> Berkeley, CA 94720
>> 
>> 510/495-2243
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Okay, I've exhausted every google search I can think of, and not getting 
>>> anywhere, so now to ask ...
>>> 
>>> Just upgraded my motherboard / CPU (old one fried out) ... picked up an 
>>> ASUS P5Q with a Quad Core Intel CPU ... everything boots / runs fine, 
>>> until I try and start up X ...
>>> 
>>> If I use the 'nv' driver in my X conig file, and the twm window manager, 
>>> everything starts up fine, I can load Firefox, etc, etc ...
>>> 
>>> As soon as I switch from nv -> nvidia and start, the screen goes blank and 
>>> the machine reboots ...
>>> 
>>> If I switch from nvidia -> nv and use '/usr/local/kde4/bin/startkde', the 
>>> screen goes blank, and the machine reboots ...
>>> 
>>> I just installed icewm, and using that, everything loads up fine too ...
>>> 
>>> So, I figure there is something that I'm either missing in my install, or 
>>> that I've configured wrong that kde is trying to use, but I'm at a lose as 
>>> to what ...
>>> 
>>> Can anyone help?
>>> 
>>> Thanks ...
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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