Hello fellow Debian users, A week ago I got a used Hercules 3d Prophet 4500 graphics board from a friend as a replacement for my good old Matrox Millennium II. Unfortunately, only closed-source drivers are available for the new card. (I wouldn't buy such a card, but this is a different situation).
I've installed the driver on my woody system and X works including hardware 3d acceleration. However there is one problem: When my system starts kdm (gdm, xdm), the xserver crashes with signal 11, these are it's last words (from /var/log/XFree86.0.log **************************************************************** (II) LoadModule: "libPVR2D" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/libPVR2D.so Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting **************************************************************** Now when I log in as root and run /etc/init.d/kdm start everything works perfectly! There is no difference in the X-logfile except for the above error message. What is the difference between calling /etc/init.d/kdm directly and at login? Can you think of a hack to make it working? I know that supporting buggy closed-source drivers is not your business but perhaps someone has an idea. thanks in advance, Christoph
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