On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa@xxxxxx> wrote: > 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 Well, all I'm really interested in is finding out whether it's xorg-server or xf86-video-nv which is broken. Then raise a bug, and get it fixed :-) /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe
