Am Montag 02 November 2009 schrieb Magnus Therning: > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Am Montag 02 November 2009 schrieb Magnus Therning: > >> I just upgraded this morning and after a reboot X refuses to start. > >> My /var/log/Xorg.0.log contains a message about a segmentation fault > >> and a short backtrace. > >> > >> I'm on AMD64, with an nVidia card (I'm using the Xorg driver, nv). > >> > >> Anyone else seeing something the same behaviour? > >> Any suggestions on how I can get my system back to normal again? > >> > >> /M > > > > You could try nouveau driver instead. > > Is that driver as mature as the Xorg nv driver? (I don't really care > about 3d stuff, so the Xorg driver is feature full enoug.) > > In the meantime I've downgraded to xorg-server from 4 Sep (and device > packages from even earlier). > > Had I thought about it I would have tried removing the nv package and > let X run with vesa instead. I'll have to get some work done first > thought, maybe I have time to try it later today or tomorrow. > > /M > Before using vesa driver you should at least give nouveau and nv driver a shot. Both lack on 3D support but for 2D operations they should work fine. Nouveau has nice kms support, which is nice if it works on your card. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nouveau greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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