pheet
01-23-2008, 04:50 PM
I recently moved from 1.3 to 1.4.1 (fresh install, same hardware).
After the new installation my system would hang completely at random points after logging in - the system would completely lock up, no ctrl-alt-backspace, no switching to a tty).
Sometimes it happened 30 seconds afteer logging in, some times after half an hour. What always triggered directly was:
* Opening the KControl center.
* Opening the display settings applet.
* Trying to browse certain webpages.
What I found by cating /var/log/messages was
Jan 23 14:03:22 wintermute kernel: NVRM: Xid: 13, 0000 02005600 00000056 00000c28 002301ca 00000080
Jan 23 14:03:22 wintermute kernel: NVRM: Xid: 6, PE0000 041c ffffffff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Graphics card is a Geforce 2 Ti chipset, using the legacy 71xx series driver.
How I eventually got it to work was by editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf and removing
the section for the composite extension and commented out lines like
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "On"
Option "RenderAccel" "On"
in the device section. Now my system is as stable as before, and I still have a decent screen resolution and acceptable graphics performance.
I hope this info can help somebody else.
BTW, PCBSD's X configurator will always set the keyboard layout to US, regardless of what's chosen during the install (or what was there previosly if upgrading from 1.3). Something to check if you have an non-us keyboard and find you can't log in through KDM if your password contains symbols/non-english letters. :twisted:
After the new installation my system would hang completely at random points after logging in - the system would completely lock up, no ctrl-alt-backspace, no switching to a tty).
Sometimes it happened 30 seconds afteer logging in, some times after half an hour. What always triggered directly was:
* Opening the KControl center.
* Opening the display settings applet.
* Trying to browse certain webpages.
What I found by cating /var/log/messages was
Jan 23 14:03:22 wintermute kernel: NVRM: Xid: 13, 0000 02005600 00000056 00000c28 002301ca 00000080
Jan 23 14:03:22 wintermute kernel: NVRM: Xid: 6, PE0000 041c ffffffff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Graphics card is a Geforce 2 Ti chipset, using the legacy 71xx series driver.
How I eventually got it to work was by editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf and removing
the section for the composite extension and commented out lines like
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "On"
Option "RenderAccel" "On"
in the device section. Now my system is as stable as before, and I still have a decent screen resolution and acceptable graphics performance.
I hope this info can help somebody else.
BTW, PCBSD's X configurator will always set the keyboard layout to US, regardless of what's chosen during the install (or what was there previosly if upgrading from 1.3). Something to check if you have an non-us keyboard and find you can't log in through KDM if your password contains symbols/non-english letters. :twisted: