On Sunday 16 Dec 2012 13:24:49 Martin Airs wrote: > On Saturday 15 Dec 2012 23:37:57 yotestalker wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Recently, whenever I launched a video with totem, my screen would go > > black and I'd end up back at the FC17 login screen. I was using the > > akmod-nvidia and kmod-nvidia drivers. I switched over to VLC as my > > default video player and the problem seemed to be solved; however, It's > > now doing the same thing whenever I try to launch google chrome. The > > screen goes black and I end up back at the login screen. It does it in > > both KDE and XFCE. Has anybody else seen this? > > You might find in your Xorg.0.log that it complains it couldn't load GLX > > I had this too, I just had to make sure these lines were in my xorg.conf > > Section "Files" > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1" > ModulePath "/usr/lib64/nvidia/xorg" > ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules" > EndSection > > you might find these lines in it, and for some reason it loads the GLX > driver.... > > ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia" > ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers" > ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules" > > Martin
sorry just to add, I found if glxinfo or glxgears didn't work, then chrome would indeed bomb X out to the login screen
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