Bug#628437: Display freezes after ksplash screen is finished

[Andreas Feldner]

Hi,

I updated to 270.41.19-1 and did a reboot. Seems that it worked so far as expected:
[   13.023111] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  270.41.19  Mon May 16 23:32:08 PDT 2011

However, no changes on the problem, unfortunately :-(

I noticed that the problem seems to be related to the actual session configuration, as booting a remote XDMCP session worked absolutely fine. So I switched off all effects in the KDE settings, and selected the KDE standard splash screen, but no difference.

I also noticed that the X session actually seems to be working although not visible - the mouse pointer changes shape to a cursor at a place where a password prompt would appear, and after typing it in, it vanished. Even one single window is showing: the "tip of the day" pop-up of KMail.

To me, that sounds really mysterious. Any chance to find out more about the origin of the problem? Having a "long-grown" installation (maintained via nvidia-installer manually earlier), should I check for any inconsistencies? The usual suspect, libglx.so looks OK:

me at myserver:/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions$ ls -l $PWD/libglx.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 28. Nov 23:37 /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so -> /etc/alternatives/libglx.so
me at myserver:/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/libglx.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 28. Nov 23:37 /etc/alternatives/libglx.so -> /usr/lib/nvidia/libglx.so
me at myserver:/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions$ ls -l /usr/lib/nvidia/libglx.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 25. Mai 08:52 /usr/lib/nvidia/libglx.so -> libglx.so.270.41.19
me at myserver:/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions$ ls -l /usr/lib/nvidia/libglx.so.270.41.19 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6327720 17. Mai 08:51 /usr/lib/nvidia/libglx.so.270.41.19


Best regards,
Andreas.

Am 29.05.2011 um 11:42 schrieb Andreas Beckmann:

> On 2011-05-29 11:26, Andreas Feldner wrote:
>> Package: nvidia-glx
>> Version: 270.41.06-1
> 
> Probably a duplicate of
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=626279
> 
> Two new driver versions are available:
>  * 270.41.19-1 (release) in unstable
>  * 275.09-1 (beta) in experimental
> Please try them.
> 
> Andreas

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