[pkg-nvidia-devel] r973 - in /packages/nvidia-graphics-drivers/trunk/debian: changelog nvidia-glx.NEWS

[anbe-guest at users.alioth.debian.org]

Author: anbe-guest
Date: Wed Jun  2 07:10:26 2010
New Revision: 973

URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-nvidia/?sc=1&rev=973
Log:
add NEWS entry about X display manager startup timeouts and give hints where to increase the default timeouts

Modified:
    packages/nvidia-graphics-drivers/trunk/debian/changelog
    packages/nvidia-graphics-drivers/trunk/debian/nvidia-glx.NEWS

Modified: packages/nvidia-graphics-drivers/trunk/debian/changelog
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-nvidia/packages/nvidia-graphics-drivers/trunk/debian/changelog?rev=973&op=diff
==============================================================================
--- packages/nvidia-graphics-drivers/trunk/debian/changelog (original)
+++ packages/nvidia-graphics-drivers/trunk/debian/changelog Wed Jun  2 07:10:26 2010
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
   * update watch file magic, add legacy support, upcoming upstream renames
   * update get-orig-source: target for upcoming upstream renames
   * debian/control: reformat and synchronize descriptions
+  * add NEWS entry about X display manager startup timeouts and give hints
+    where to increase the default timeouts
 
  -- Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org>  Wed, 26 May 2010 07:19:43 -0700
 

Modified: packages/nvidia-graphics-drivers/trunk/debian/nvidia-glx.NEWS
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-nvidia/packages/nvidia-graphics-drivers/trunk/debian/nvidia-glx.NEWS?rev=973&op=diff
==============================================================================
--- packages/nvidia-graphics-drivers/trunk/debian/nvidia-glx.NEWS (original)
+++ packages/nvidia-graphics-drivers/trunk/debian/nvidia-glx.NEWS Wed Jun  2 07:10:26 2010
@@ -1,3 +1,24 @@
+nvidia-graphics-drivers (195.36.24-3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ Recently several users experienced problems starting their X display
+ managers when using the NVIDIA driver.  Observations are flashing NVIDIA
+ logos (there are usually several attempts to start the display manager) and
+ log entries talking about "timeout".  This may be caused by the driver
+ needing more time to initialize the hardware than allowed by the default
+ timeout settings.  Increasing the timeouts can solve this problem:
+
+ For 'kdm' edit /etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc and set  (see #583312)
+   [X-*-Core]
+   ServerTimeout=120
+
+ For 'gdm' edit /etc/gdm/gdm.conf and set  (see #521699)
+   [daemon]
+   GdmXserverTimeout=30
+
+ For 'gdm3' the default timeout setting seems to be sufficient.
+
+ -- Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de>  Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:06:26 +0200
+
 nvidia-graphics-drivers (1.0.8174-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   LEGACY GPUs: If you have a TNT, TNT2, Vanta, GeForce 256, GeForce DDR,