[REGRESSION] 185.18.08 X crash on VT switch

[Dragoran]

When switching VT with the 185.18.08 driver the X Server crashes. (get back to the login screen but I stay at the same VT).

Any older driver works fine.

This also means that I can no longer supsend to ram (just end up at the login screen)

Bug report is attached.

[AaronP]

Thanks for reporting this. It will be fixed in the next release.

[Dragoran]

Originally Posted by AaronP

Thanks for reporting this. It will be fixed in the next release.

Thanks for the quick reply, will use 185.18.04 until the fixed driver arrives.

[nldudok1]

When I first installed 185.18.08 I had compiz disabled and did not get X-crashes when switching VT.
(The terminal stays blank as it has allways done on my 9600m GS.
killing X and reposting the videocard with vbtracetool -p would restore it. But I didn't do this now)

As soon as I turned compiz on I get an X-crash when I switch VT (CTRL-SHIFT-F1).
(terminal stays black, like above)
When I witch back to X (SHIFT-F7) X crashes or restarts.
I end up on the login screen, the same as reported earlier in this thread.

I now also sometimes get black squares in stead of letters when I type in a gnome-terminal with compiz enabled.
(I do not get these with compiz disabled)
See screenshot, right-bottom



I attached bugreports without compiz and after compiz enabled (=after a VT switch X-crash)

system: ACER aspire 6930G
card: 9600m GS 512 MB DDR2
driver: 185.18.08
kernel: 2.6.29.1 x86_64
OS: ubuntu hardy 64bit
videobios: 62.94.3c.00.17
nvidia-bug-report_nocompiz_noxcrash.log.gz
nvidia-bug-report-compiz-xcrash.log.gz

[tadawson]

Just tested here with 9800GTX+, 185.18.08, XFree86 4.70 and 2.6.29.2 kernel, and all appears to work normally - I can get to any VT, between them, and back cleanly, at least for the few minutes I tested.

- Tim

[rainerklier]

me too.
openSUSE 11.1 x86_64 with quadro fx 1600 in dell precision m6300.

and detecting and applying second monitor on the fly with "nvidia-settings" tool also crashes X when configuring second monitor and clicking on "Apply".

this works, when compiz-fusion is NOT running.

[Dragoran]

# Fixed occasional X server crashes when running an OpenGL-based composite manager.

I can confirm that this indeed fixed the issue for me.
Thanks for the quick fix.