xorg && 7-current && ( kde || nvidia driver ) == desktop crash

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Glen Barber wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Marc G. Fournier <scrappy at hub.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Okay, I've exhausted every google search I can think of, and not getting
>> anywhere, so now to ask ...
>>
>> Just upgraded my motherboard / CPU (old one fried out) ... picked up an ASUS
>> P5Q with a Quad Core Intel CPU ... everything boots / runs fine, until I try
>> and start up X ...
>>
>> If I use the 'nv' driver in my X conig file, and the twm window manager,
>> everything starts up fine, I can load Firefox, etc, etc ...
>>
>> As soon as I switch from nv -> nvidia and start, the screen goes blank and
>> the machine reboots ...
>>
>> If I switch from nvidia -> nv and use '/usr/local/kde4/bin/startkde', the
>> screen goes blank, and the machine reboots ...
>>
>> I just installed icewm, and using that, everything loads up fine too ...
>>
>> So, I figure there is something that I'm either missing in my install, or
>> that I've configured wrong that kde is trying to use, but I'm at a lose as
>> to what ...
>>
>
> Are you starting hald and dbus via rc.conf?

Yes ... both mouse and keyboard have been working great ...

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