Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4208 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 03 July 2004 17.59, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx> [07-03-04 10:49]:
> > On Saturday 03 July 2004 17.38, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> > > * Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx> [07-03-04 10:27]:
> > > > How about /var/log/kdm.log? Does that have anything interesting?
> > >
> > > Only two missing font path elements that have appeared since I
> > > installed 9.0 and successfully used previous nvidia ver's. ??
> >
> > Can you tell from "ps aux" or "top" if anything is actually doing
> > anything (I'm thinking kdm related here)?
>
> No instance of kdm.  About 20 instances of kdeinit, mostly related to
> normal processes I run, kicker, kdesktop, ...

Oh, you have autologin enabled. well, what does $HOME/.xsession-errors look 
like when this is going on?

> > How do you start the new session, and what is the error message?
>
> pat@wahoo:~> startx -- :1
>
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to allocate external video decoder object
> (EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***

ouch, ok, that's beyond me