Re: KDE Crash on logout

I think I might have the same problem you are describing.
I'll search for it on the net and get back to you for more help :)
thanks.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles F. Vardeman II" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Linux-sony] KDE Crash on logout


> On Monday 28 July 2003 12:01 pm, Deepak Chawla wrote:
> > hi John,
> > I'm using a Sony Vaio PCG V505BXP laptop. The specifications on the
>
> > >On Sunday 27 July 2003 10:36 pm, Deepak Chawla wrote:
> > > > Hi Folks,
> > > > I just bought a Sony Vaio laptop and installed Mandrake 9.1 on it.
I
> > > > am having a few problems with it.
> > > >
> > > > 1. KDE crashes the system on logout. I read a few messages posted on
> > > > the mailing list about this, but none of them had any information
about
> > > > any fixes. Currently, to logout, what I do is, at the command
prompt,
> > > > init 3 and then init 5. Does anyone know of a fix for this ? I need
> > > > this badly
>
> It sounds like a bug with DRI, XFree and the radeon chipset I had on my
> PCG-GRV550. The problem is instead of restarting X on logout, the dm
service
> tries to respawn in the same X session. This is normally fine, but there
is a
> bug in the XFree radeon driver and the DRI kernel driver that locks the
> kernel.  I placed a bug report during the beta but it was never fixed
until
> after 9.1 was released. It is fixed in the cooker XFree packages. The only
> way around with out replacing XFree with the cooker version (I don't know
if
> the cooker packages will work in 9.1 without some pain) is to kill X by
> either "service dm restart" or my favorite ctrl-alt-backspace.
"Shutdown -h
> now" also works from the commandline. If you don't care about dri  3-d
> acceleration you can remove the "Load dri" from the "Module" section of
your
> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and remove the Section "DRI" from the file. There
was a
> long thread on the cooker mailing list in March-April about this problem.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> --Chuck
>
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