Hi,
I had a problem a couple of months ago on my laptop (a Dell Latitude E6500)
in which after an upgrade of the nvidia drivers (as far as I was able to
determine) from 195.36.31-6 to 270.41.06-1 resulted in a problem in which
starting any KDE application would cause a traceback and crashing X. I dug
on this and didn't find anything online that helped me figure out the
problem...So I rebuilt. Everything worked in squeeze with the older drivers.
Then, recently, I upgraded to wheezy, and started experiencing the same
issue.
I determined that the problem was the xorg.conf that was generated by
nvidia-settings to accomodate my dual-monitor setup in the office. If I use
a generic xorg.conf only to use the nvidia driver:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection
...everything works fine, albeit without the external monitor. However, if I
use the one generated by nvidia-config:
# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (pbuilder@c203) Tue May 18 07:56:38 UTC
2010
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection
Section "Files"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Seiko/Epson"
HorizSync 49.4 - 74.1
VertRefresh 40.0 - 60.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "ViewSonic VA2223wm"
HorizSync 24.0 - 82.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 75.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "Quadro NVS 160M"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device1"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "Quadro NVS 160M"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "metamodes" "DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Device1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "metamodes" "CRT: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
I didn't see anything obtuse that would cause the type of behavior such as I
was seeing. However, I stripped it down as far as I could (e.g. removing the
options from the screen sections), I still see the same behavior. Can anyone
see what could be causing this strange crashiness?
Thanks,
--b
