Xscreensaver kills xorg on nvidia

chemical chris · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 2:50 pm Post subject: Xscreensaver kills xorg on nvidia

every time xscreensaver starts (even the managment utility) the xserver shuts down and kicks me back out to the gdm login.
annoyingley, i was typing this post up and it happened again whe i tried to diagnose if xscreensaver was asking for an invalid screen setting.

i found somthing errorable in the logs but oodley enough, after restart the same log showed a more generic error with none of the lovley things i had spotted previously. (cant remember the exact errors, but the led me to believe that xscreensaver may be looking for an invalid screen setting from nvidia or xorg)

chemical chris · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 3:58 pm Post subject:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-286914-highlight-xscreensaver+crash.html

i found that, but its a different beanch of the problem, ill try it and see -- its all for glade, so its not really crutial for xscreensaver on nvidia,

/dev/nvidia0
/dev/nvidiactl

should be owned by root and in the video group.

that didnt work: im going to try this:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-227118-start-0.html

chemical chris · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 7:20 pm Post subject:

*realises that post and thred areat least a YEAR old... *sulks*

well im clueless now - just tried a opengl-update xorg-x11 not that i thinki it will help.

"With the 2.4-kernels, the solution seemed to be to disable "preemptible kernel", with 2.6.* there´s no solution (at least i havn´t found one)."

*sigh*