From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 5 14:36:46 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 883E0106566C for ; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 14:36:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net) Received: from mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58D4C8FC1D for ; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 14:36:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net) Received: from smoochies.rachie.is-a-geek.net (mailhub.lan.rachie.is-a-geek.net [192.168.2.11]) by mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCFB87E818; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 06:36:44 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mel Flynn To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 06:36:43 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (FreeBSD/8.0-BETA2; KDE/4.2.4; i386; ; ) References: <1249475858.6074.5.camel@penguin.coert.local> In-Reply-To: <1249475858.6074.5.camel@penguin.coert.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200908050636.43776.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> Cc: Coert Waagmeester Subject: Re: Wierd X crash X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:36:46 -0000 On Wednesday 05 August 2009 04:37:38 Coert Waagmeester wrote: > I am fairly new to FreeBSD. I use linux a lot. > > Am running FreeBSD 7.2 i386 with the nvidia 173 driver with an AGP > GeForce FX 5200. > > > My X works, with xinerama and two screens, perfectly, > but as soon as I hold down any key (like Backspace to remove a line of > text) X crashes. Any key? Even one that does not create scrolling on the screen? like backspace in an empty file? Unless someone else has seen this, sounds really hard to debug without a coredump :/ The only long shot I got to offer is that nvidia provides TwinView which does the same as Xinerama and you might want to try that out instead. There's detailed information about it in one of the Nvidia README's. -- Mel