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Date:      Wed, 30 Aug 2006 04:15:45 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        "Sean M." <sigma_zk@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fullscreen crashes
Message-ID:  <448xl6fxla.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060828075954.55670.qmail@web52313.mail.yahoo.com> (Sean M.'s message of "Mon, 28 Aug 2006 00:59:54 -0700 (PDT)")
References:  <20060828075954.55670.qmail@web52313.mail.yahoo.com>

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"Sean M." <sigma_zk@yahoo.com> writes:

> Everytime* I use a program, usually a game, that switches into
> full-screen mode, I get dumped to a tty screen and everything is hung;
> I have to power cycle to fix it. Yesterday, everything worked
> perfectly.
>
> The only thing I did in the interim that influenced the system was to
> install gcc42 from ports, and then immediately after deinstall it.
>
> OS is 6.1-REL. I'm using the NVIDIA binary driver. It doesn't matter
> whether I start the programs in KDE or twm.

Is it happening with the x.org "nv" driver also?
Is there anything in the X logs that gives a clue?



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