Bug#583312: [pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#583312: possible fix

2010-05-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Petter Reinholdtsen writes: > [Russ Allbery] >> If you're experiencing a variant of #521699, then the problem is >> that the timeout in KDM is too fast. You need to tell KDM to wait >> longer; it takes the NVIDIA driver longer to initialize the card >> than it's willing to wait for. I suspect t

Bug#583312: possible fix

2010-05-27 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Russ Allbery] > If you're experiencing a variant of #521699, then the problem is > that the timeout in KDM is too fast. You need to tell KDM to wait > longer; it takes the NVIDIA driver longer to initialize the card > than it's willing to wait for. I suspect that the only thing that > parallel b

Bug#583312: possible fix

2010-05-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Romane writes: >> I had a look at the open bugs against nvidia-glx, and came across >> #521699 which seem similar to your problem. Reassigning to the >> nvidia-glx package to get input from the maintainers of that package, >> and because I believe the problem is in that package. Setting >> serv

Bug#583312: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#583312: possible fix

2010-05-27 Thread Romane
Good morning Petter reassign 583312 nvidia-glx severity 583312 serious thanks Thanks for passing it on. Even if not all users, a sufficient portion probably. Have replied all in this email. I had a look at the open bugs against nvidia-glx, and came across #521699 which seem similar to your prob

Bug#583312: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#583312: possible fix

2010-05-27 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
reassign 583312 nvidia-glx severity 583312 serious thanks [Romane] > I have reached the end of my own options and limited knowledge > (getting old and forgetful :)), but am most happy to use this > machine to debug the issue with you if that will help improve > further an already supurb distributi

Bug#583312: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#583312: possible fix

2010-05-27 Thread Romane
Good morning Petter I must thank you for your patience. As far as I know, changing the sequence number of a script will not affect parallel booting. Did you use S7nvidia-glx or S07nvidia-glx? If the former, I suspect this caused the script to not run at all during boot. I suspect there is some

Bug#583312: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#583312: possible fix

2010-05-27 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Romane] > Changed the S17nvidia-glx to S7nvidia-glx, and the beastie booted up to > a login screen no problems, and at about the same speed (give or take) > as before the installation of the initscripts and sysv... stuff yesterday. As far as I know, changing the sequence number of a script will

Bug#583312: possible fix

2010-05-27 Thread Romane
Good morning Further hunting around, and may have found a solution. A little background : Adding the line "ServerTimeout=120" to the [X-*-Core] section of /etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc enabled the system to boot to a normal login screen. In comparison to while having the problem, where was counting 7 to