F7 Screen saver resets X

François Patte francois.patte at math-info.univ-paris5.fr
Tue Jun 5 21:58:32 UTC 2007


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Paul Lemmons a écrit :
> -------- Original Message  --------
> Subject: F7 Screen saver resets X
> From: Paul Lemmons <paul.lemmons at tmcaz.com>
> To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Date: 06/05/2007 01:10 PM
>> I upgraded to F7 from FC6 and it appeared to run cleanly. I then
>> updated the system (303 packages) and that went cleanly. Everything
>> seems to be working, so far with one major exception. When my screen
>> saver kicks in it resets X. Even in the kcontrol when I select the
>> screen saver and it starts the preview it crashes X. I have looked in
>> my Xorg.0.log, messages and dmesg with nothing jumping out at me as a
>> probable cause.
>>
>> Any clues from anyone?
>>
>> Setup:
>>
>> $ uname -a
>> Linux lemix.tmcaz.com 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 #1 SMP Wed May 23 22:35:01 EDT
>> 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>>
>> $ rpm -qa | grep nvidia
>> kmod-nvidia-1.0.9762-1.2.6.21_1.3194.fc7
>> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.9762-2.lvn7
>>
>> Repositories:
>> kde                       100% |=========================| 1.1 kB   
>> 00:00
>> livna                     100% |=========================| 1.1 kB   
>> 00:00
>> fedora                    100% |=========================| 2.1 kB   
>> 00:00
>> kde-all                   100% |=========================|  951 B   
>> 00:00
>> updates                   100% |=========================| 1.9 kB   
>> 00:00
>>
>>
> More info...
> 
> Found this in the Xorg.0.log.old file
> 
> Backtrace:
> 0: /usr/bin/Xorg(xf86SigHandler+0x81) [0x80ceb41]
> 1: [0xdcb420]
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 11.  Server aborting
> 
> 
> Also it appears to be associated with OGL programs. I tried Celestia and
> Chess and both perform the same reset.

What is your graphic card? Did you install the right driver? Is the
driver accepts graphical acceleration? Is glx enabled in xorg.conf? etc.

- --
François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université René Descartes
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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