[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#443870: xorg: Xorg segfaults on startup

[Phil Dibowitz]

Brice Goglin wrote:
> There are some known bugs about Xinerama in Xserver 1.4, especially
> #443274. But the backtrace above is completely different, and it seems
> totally nvidia specific. So I am reassigning this bug to nvidia-glx.
> We'll keep #443274 to deal with Xserver-without-nvidia Xinerama problems.

Thanks Brice. Indeed it turns out people are having this problem even with
older Xorgs - it's a bug in the latest nvidia drivers.

Doing some research I found this:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=7858bb6d26391d3abf310c8788143778&t=99016

which suggests that I can work around the problem by explicitly disabling
"composite."

I'll try this when I get into the office tomorrow and report back if that works.

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