2009/9/10 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com>: > On Thursday 10 September 2009 06:00:08 Dudu Loschi wrote: > >> I've had this issue today with a new KDE 4.3.1 installation (actually >> not so new, it was running fine for 4 days). I decided to track down >> what was probably causing this issue since it apparently to came from >> nowhere. >> Well, after testing some configurations I realized that changing fonts >> size (specially menu's font) could lead to this problem, but reverting >> the size didn't solved. >> Them I started changing xorg.conf and found an workaround: disable >> BackingStore. I've tested several times and the crash never happened >> with BackingStore off. And I actually turned it on yesterday, so at >> least on my system that's the cause of the crash. >> So if you are experiencing this and have BackingStore on, disable it. >> If you don't have BackingStore enable try changing some other >> configuration in xorg.conf, it may help. > > I agree with Dudu, nvidia-drivers is the likely culprit. There were huge > problems in the early days of KDE-4, it's very possible that bugs are still > lurking. > > A useful site to trawl looking for similar problems and solutions: > > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14 > > It's a semi-official announce site for nVidia plus general Forum. The driver > devs read the list and respond to major issues. > > -- > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > >
Thanks for the link Alan, it's very useful. Actually this bug has been reported at that forum: http://www.google.com/cse?cx=partner-pub-6344472472167039%3Ayq78am-jukz&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=backingstore&sa=Search+Site I was having a similar crash with gnome/metacity when I upgraded to gnome 2.26 but I never tried to track down the bug, I just switched to openbox, which didn't crash in gnome. But in KDE/Openbox the crash happens, but less frequently than with KWin 2009/9/10 Frank Steinmetzger <war...@gmx.de>: > Am Donnerstag, 10. September 2009 schrieb Dudu Loschi: > >> > Hi guys, >> > >> > until now I've been quite a KDE4 hater, but I'm willing to give it a try >> > from time to time. So I installed 4.3 parallel to my beloved 3.5.10 and >> > was quite pleased with it. However, I have repeating crashes of my entire >> > X. Mostly it happens when I open Konsole, the next often occasion is >> > opening a menu (main menu, context menu, you name it), but also only >> > after a Konsole windows was opened. All I see is a quick error message >> > about glibc, then X restarts and I'm back at kdm. >> > >> > I use a laptop with a Geforce 7600 GPU, running on nvidia-drivers-180.60. > >> I've had this issue today with a new KDE 4.3.1 installation (actually >> not so new, it was running fine for 4 days). I decided to track down >> what was probably causing this issue since it apparently to came from >> nowhere. >> Well, after testing some configurations I realized that changing fonts >> size (specially menu's font) could lead to this problem, but reverting >> the size didn't solved. >> Them I started changing xorg.conf and found an workaround: disable >> BackingStore. I've tested several times and the crash never happened >> with BackingStore off. > > A great many thanks to you, I've just tried it and it seems to have the effect > you described. I'll dig into it further. But now of course I'm trapped > between two worlds - stay with my sceen efficient and faster 3.5, or begin a > liason with 4.3 for the benefits it provides, but also with its latent > lagginess. *ponder ponder* > -- > Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' > Kids in the back seat cause accidents. Accidents in the backseat cause kids. > Great that it worked! One thing to notice is that BackingStore is implemented by de X server, not by the driver, So maybe this isn't a bug in nvidia-drivers IMHO you should use KDE4 as now it's pretty stable (without BackingStore, no issues at all here)
