From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: Can't exit the X server afer a fresh installation of FC4 on a Dell Inspiron 2650, immediately updated to the latest packages. Happens both with the nv and the nvidia drivers and with kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 kernel-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.boot to level 3 2.startx 3.logout/reboot Actual Results: With the nvidia driver, the screen turns black and computer freezes. Can't login remotely. With the nv driver, I get the prompt, but the screen is corrupted. However it is possible to restart X. Expected Results: should have gotten a prompt and a clean console. Additional info: Currently running kernel-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4 xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2 The graphics card is Nvidia GeForce2 Go, so I installed also kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4-1.0.8174-0.lvn.1.4 nvidia-glx-1.0.8174-0.lvn.1.4 Using the nvidia driver, at resolution 1024x768 the screen turns black and the computer freezes when I exit X. Changing the driver to nv, I can exit X, but the consoled is corrupted. It looks like there's "debris" reminiscent of booting, and the screen wraps around. With either driver the problem happens both with the latest kernel (2.6.14-1.1644_FC4) as well with the original kernel (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4). After some trial-and-error, I commented out Load "glx" in xorg.conf, and the problems disappears (both for the nvidia and the nv driver, either kernel). So I reckon this must be glx bug. Unfortunately the original FC4 X server is gone, so I can't tell wether or not this problem occurs with that one as well.
Completely uninstall the nvidia proprietary driver, and do a full reboot. Update to the latest FC packages that have been released, and try to reproduce with the "nv" driver. If it is still reproduceable, update the report with your xorg.conf and X server log as individual uncompressed file attachments for review. TIA
For users who are experiencing problems installing, configuring, or using the unsupported 3rd party proprietary "nvidia" video driver, Nvidia provides indirect customer support via an online web based support forum. Nvidia monitors these web forums for commonly reported problems and passes them on to Nvidia engineers for investigation. Once they've isolated a particular problem, it is often fixed in a future video driver update. The NVNews Nvidia Linux driver forum is located at: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14 Once you have reported this issue in the Nvidia web forums, others who may have experienced the particular problem may be able to assist. If there is a real bug occuring, Nvidia will be able to determine this, and will likely resolve the issue in a future driver update for the operating system releases that they officially support. While Red Hat does not support the proprietary nvidia driver, users requiring technical support may also find the various X.Org, XFree86, and Red Hat mailing lists helpful in finding assistance: X.Org mailing lists: http://www.freedesktop.org/XOrg/XorgMailingLists XFree86 mailing lists: http://www.xfree86.org/sos/lists.html Red Hat mailing lists: https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo Setting status to "CANTFIX" (unsupported).