Re: [opensuse] Re: X Server for display crash after upgrading to KDE4.13

On 27/04/14 14:08, Robin Klitscher wrote:

On 04/27/2014 03:49 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:

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On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Mariusz Fik wrote:

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Dnia sobota, 26 kwietnia 2014 07:07:14 C pisze:

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This whole thing was rather odd. The KDE4.13 update didn't include a new kernel (I check the update before I apply). It was only a KDE4 update I triggered... but somehow something tweaked the NVidia driver in such a way that only Chrome and Chromium would trigger an X crash. In the time when KDE 4.13 showed up in KDE:Current, there was also Xserver update (xorg-x11-server package) in Update repository. And this could cause issue with NVidia blob driver. Not the KDE update itself. I just spotted that here... about 1 minute after you sent your email :-)

Yes, the xorg package was the culprit that caused my odd problems with Chromium.

C. I think that it is fair to say that people ought to be made aware of

On 26/04/14 20:14, C wrote: this problem with the nVidia driver as a result of upgrading to KDE 4.13.

My wife loves to play backgammon (gnubg) but it stopped 'working' when she tried to play it this morning. I remembered what you said re recompiling the nVidia driver and after I did this gnubg was back in business. She is again a happy little vegemite :-) .

AFAIK it's not the upgrade to KDE 4.13 that's the "problem", but the contemporary (though otherwise unconnected) update to the xorg server.

See my response to John.

For a very long time I've used the nVidia proprietary drivers, invariably installed the (so-called) "hard way". I've never had any serious or lasting trouble with this, other than self-inflicted. Having to re-install after a kernel update is a given, of course. But so it is also for xorg updates where the video drives might appear still to be working, though with much reduced functionality. Re-installing nVidia restores all that.

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