| A month so back during updates from SUSE I started having problems. | | I am wondering if any of you are configured like I am and might have | observed this bug. | | I am running SUSE 10.1. I also run the NVIDIA 8774 driver. | | I DO NOT see problems when only one person is logged on. | | However, two people use this machine such that one is on F7 and | the other person is on F8. So switches to the two different | environments happen multiple times a day. | | After about 5-12 hours one of the users starts seeing white tiny | dots at the very top edge of their desktop. Within a few minutes | (and especially if an F-key switch takes place) the keyboard stops | working and the mouse and the screen goes away. (I need to describe | what the screen looks like when it goes away but I can't at the moment). | | I can login with ssh from another machine and everything looks ok, | except that "top" reports that X is using 100% of the resources. | I usually do a reboot at that point and then the machine works again, | usually for several hours. | | I have a gut feeling that this started when Xorg-x11-server-6.9.0-50.24.rpm | was delivered via the software updater mechanism. I notice that Xorg | now has | version 7.1 available but I would prefer to try that via a SUSE delivery | than to do it myself. If I prove that it is the X server I wonder how I | can get SUSE to release the newer one? | | Questions: Is anyone out there configured to have two or more desktop | users? | Has anyone seen this behavior? | Should I write the Xorg people? | | I know that I need to dig deeper and get more facts but was hopeful that | someone might | have seen this and solved it. | | Cheers, | Bob First if this message looks weird to anyone sorry. I deleted the original thread so found it on the SUSE web site and cut and pasted. The card I am using is an ASUSTek GeForce FX5200. I switched back to the native "nv" driver supplied with SUSE 10.1. The problem of switching screens went away. Of course so did 3D. I am convinced that either a kernel upgrade RPM or the Xorg-x11-server-6.9.0-50.24.rpm and the NVIDIA driver don't like each other when screen switching is going on. I do see in the kdm.log kdm.log:(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to allocate video overlay kdm.log:(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** which is not good. Anyone care to comment further? Do I report this to NVIDIA, or to Xorg ? Do I just wait for 10.2 and see what happens then. Cheers, Bob