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Re: Hard crashes with device,/retain=2 ?? [message #34680 is a reply to message #34549]

Mon, 07 April 2003 14:38

condor
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Registered: January 2002

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Nigel Wade <nmw@ion.le.ac.uk> wrote in message news:<b5s41t$5pb$1@south.jnrs.ja.net>...
>
> What happens if you use the generic xv driver supplied with XFree86? I know
> you won't get any hardware acceleration via OpenGL, but if you're not using
> it the driver might be more stable.

Thanks to all that responded, I am still troubleshooting this. Yes, I
have of course recompiled all the drivers for my kernel/architecture.

For some reason, there doesn't seem to be an option to deactivate
hardware acceleration for the nvidia drivers in the XF86 config file.
If I change the driver from "nvidia" to "nv" things look basically OK,
but I get four (4) mouse-pointers horizontally in a row (only the
right one of which is active -- but that is confusing like hell). If I
choose "vga" or "vesa" as drivers, X doesn't even come up. I made sure
that "glx" was taken out and that "dri" and "GLcore" were in -- but
there may well be another little thing I forgot to change.

I wouldn't mind handing some command-line switches to X upon startup (
"-bs" seems to be what I'm looking for) but I'm not sure where/when
startx is actually executed when I boot directly into runlevel 5 (or
switch into it via "init 5") or how to convince xdm (or in my case
kdm) to pass on switches if they should be the ones that execute
startx internally somehow.

Well, I keep on messing with it -- at least I have now learned such
useful things as how to switch on the hardware cursor shadow or the
"digital vibrance conrol" -- my desktop is prettier than ever
before...

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		Hard crashes with device,/retain=2 ?? By: condor on Thu, 20 March 2003 10:22
		Re: Hard crashes with device,/retain=2 ?? By: Karl Schultz on Wed, 26 March 2003 08:43
		Re: Hard crashes with device,/retain=2 ?? By: dmarino on Tue, 08 April 2003 07:00
		Re: Hard crashes with device,/retain=2 ?? By: condor on Fri, 25 April 2003 10:39
		Re: Hard crashes with device,/retain=2 ?? By: Nigel Wade on Wed, 26 March 2003 03:48
		Re: Hard crashes with device,/retain=2 ?? By: condor on Mon, 07 April 2003 14:38

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