Most recent kernel where this bug did not occur: 2.6.12 Distribution: slackware Hardware Environment: AMD64/MSI MB/NVIDIA chipset Software Environment:X11-6.8.1 Problem Description: X crashes at startup. Keyboard/mouse locked out. Kernel is alive because I can log in from a terminal and shut the system down. Steps to reproduce: startx
Please attach: - the exact error messages you are seeing - output of "dmesg -s 1000000" - your .config - the output of ./scripts/ver_linux Is this an unpatches ftp.kernel.org kernel or a distribution kernel? In the latter case, does the problem also occur with an unpatched ftp.kernel.org kernel?
Created attachment 5834 [details] Response to bunk's question
Could you post your /var/log/xorg.0.log (or whatever log file your xserver generates) please?
Have you tried 'killall X'? Does this return the machine to a useable state?
Earlier I posted a bug against the 2.6.13 kernel in which X crashed at startup while under 2.6.12 it did not. I tried a different window manager, different version of X: x11-6.8.2 vs x11-6.8.1. The original kernel was compiled for the AMD64. I re-compiled for an Athlon. None of these changes was successful. In desperation I changed the video card from a 16Mb Nvidia PCI card to a 64Mb AGP Nvidia and the problem was solved. Although the development group will probably dismiss the problem as hardware related I think something changed in the 2.6.13 kernel which was unintended. Thanks for any consideration given to the original problem.
What driver are you using from your Nvidia card?
I'm assuming this issue is already fixed. Please reopen this bug if: - it is still present in recent 2.6 kernels and - you can provide the requested information.