XFCE Hangs

Krisztian VASAS iron at ironiq.hu
Mon Feb 13 16:01:44 CET 2006


John Lee írta 2006-02-13 08:54 -n:
> roger wrote:
>>Your X conf. file reads that your driver is "nv" (generic/opensource). 
>>However, your issue sounds like the nvidia bug.
>>I would suggest that you try "lsmod | grep nv", which should tell which driver 
>>is used.
>>If it says "nv", sorry I'm at lost... Otherwise (nvidia), it's likely that the 
>>X conf file used is not the one you think it is...
>>
>>What sounds odd to me is that you can run KDE without problems. A faulty 
>>driver should generate the same problems, whatever window manager you use!?
>>In addition, I had in the past similar symptoms, except that no window 
>>managers was spared.
>>It was due to faulty hardware, the video card, which didn't prevent me to 
>>compile kernels, though.
> 
> Running "lsmod | grep nv" as root turns up nothing. Without the grep 
> command piped, however, the output consisted mostly of various sound 
> modules, except for the following three:
> via_velocity           31712  0
> crc_ccitt               1728  1 via_velocity
> crc32                   3904  1 via_velocity
> 

The opensource nvidia driver is not loaded as kernel module. That's only 
inside the X. The binary nvidia driver module name is "nvidia". I think 
these two module names are mixed..


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