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Date:      Thu, 30 Jan 2003 20:39:51 +0100
From:      Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@lphp.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kde+nvidia = crash
Message-ID:  <200301302039.51455.ajacoutot@lphp.org>
In-Reply-To: <200301301626.35403.lauri@kde.org>
References:  <200301301609.03631.ajacoutot@lphp.org> <200301301626.35403.lauri@kde.org>

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On Thursday 30 January 2003 16:26, Lauri Watts wrote:

> I've been using the NVidia drivers since the day they were released, and
> I've never seen a KDE crash that could be attributed to them. That's
> multiple versions of -STABLE and multiple versions of KDE, everything from
> 3.0.x to KDE CVS.    I have seen twice X crash entirely (and in fact,
> spontaneously reboot the machine) apparently from the nvidia drivers, but
> in both those cases I was playing movies via the tv-out port, and there was
> no window manager or desktop environment running at all.  Just X, an xterm,
> and mplayer.  If there's a bad interaction with KDE and the nvidia binary
> drivers, it apparently isn't affecting all nvidia based cards, making it
> pretty hard to work on unfortunately :(.
>
> To try:
> Does the problem go away entirely if you use the nv drivers?

I can't get it to work... maybe the installation+removal of the NVidia binary 
drivers wiped out some files... (I installed from ports)

> Does the problem go away if you switch to the "kde-classic" window
> decoration in KDE?

I'm using the KDE-classic decoration

> You'll also probably get more input by asking on kde@freebsd.org

Never though of that... thanks.

Antoine


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