Le mardi 06 juin 2006 à 12:49 +0800, W.Kenworthy a écrit :
> I have just brought my X up to date (modular Xorg 7.1) and am finding
> that xscreensaver is crashing the xserver.  Of course there is nothing
> in the logs, or onscreen as X either stops or reboots.  Eventually it
> takes out the OS and a system reboot is required.
> 
> Is anyone else seeing this (in which case I'll bugzilla it, though I
> have no info on whats happening) or is it just me?
> 
> This also has brought up a *BIG* disadvantage of modularising something
> like xorg - when things go wrong, how can you wind it back to a previous
> version - impossible?
> 
> BillK
> 

do you have a nvidia card and a nvidia driver that you compiled
yourself ?

because i heard 7.1 introduced a ABI change so the drivers aren't
compatible now.

with portage nvidia-kernel block xorg 7.1

i have this in my package.mask:

# nvidia incompatibility
>=x11-base/xorg-x11-7.1
>=x11-base/xorg-server-1.1.0
>=x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa-1.2.1
>=x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa-1.2.0
>=x11-drivers/xf86-video-vga-4.1.0
>=x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard-1.1.0
>=x11-drivers/xf86-input-joystick-1.1.0
>=x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.1.1
>=x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv-1.1.2µµ


-Leszek


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