Sviten Report post Posted January 4, 2005 If you don't use Gentoo, you can disregard this I think. This is sort of an FYI since I don't think it's EL's fault (though EL could handle crashes better). I just did an emerge --sync; emerge -u world on my Gentoo box (for you non-Gentoo Linux users, that essentially brings all of the software up to date). One of the packages updated was X.org from 6.7 to 6.8. Now EL will not run. In fact, it causes X to restart. I backdated my X to 6.7 and EL works again. This happens for both EL 1.0.0 and EL CVS as of Jan 3rd. I've posted a Gentoo bug, but you should be aware of this since EL leaves no logging information with this crash (even with -DDEBUG in the makefile). http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76587 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Platyna Report post Posted January 4, 2005 Do you have NVidia drivers installed? Regards. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wytter Report post Posted January 4, 2005 (edited) Hmm, it works fine here with 6.8.0 and Gentoo (AMD64 however). Did you remember to rebuild your CVS? If you use the nVIDIA or ATI and not xorg glx, you should also rebuild that. Edited January 4, 2005 by Wytter Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Platyna Report post Posted January 4, 2005 Yes, I think he didn't re-compiled his graphic card driver after upgrading X. Regards. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sviten Report post Posted January 4, 2005 Yah, you guys hit the nail on the head...but sideways. I have ATi drivers for a Radeon 9500 (and a 9700 Mobility on my laptop), but they are known not to work with Xorg 6.8. So I learned that. Bug resolved. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wytter Report post Posted January 4, 2005 I think ATI are going to release some new linux drivers during this month. Then you can upgrade to xorg-6.8 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placid Report post Posted January 4, 2005 I think ATI are going to release some new linux drivers during this month. Then you can upgrade to xorg-6.8 Yeah right, and pigs can fly Seriously, if they do release them, are they going to be worthwhile? I wonder if my old Rage ATI 128 pro will be supported? And what about compatibility with XFree?(my mdk server is old and still running XFree) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wytter Report post Posted January 4, 2005 Don't expect too much from ATI. nVIDIA is ~2½ years ahead of them in terms of driver development for Linux. Be glad if it's stable and working on your chipset and kernel version. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placid Report post Posted January 4, 2005 nVIDIA is ~2½ years ahead of them in terms of driver development for Linux. Exactly. Which is why I chose nVidia on my laptop. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
