Description of problem: Well, as the summary says, if I press any of the multimedia keys on my MS Natural Keyboard Pro keyboard, it crashes X and dumps me back to the ttys. (I start in Runlevel 3.) This happens either in Xfce4 or in Gnome, so I'm guessing it's X that is doing it. The only two keys I've tried is the "Back" and "Mail" MM keys. I was trying to map their keycodes in xev, but bam. It also crashes even if xev is running, so I can't blame it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): I think I have: xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-47.5.fc6 I'm not too sure if that is the correct xorg rpm. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start Xfce4 or Gnome 2. Press a multimedia key. 3. Crash. Actual results: X crashes dumping me back to the ttys. Expected results: A keycode is sent. Not much more beyond that since I can't map the keycodes until the keyboard stops crashing X. Additional info: Here is the backtrace generated: Backtrace: 0: X(xf86SigHandler+0x81) [0x80da1e1] 1: [0x628420] 2: X(ProcessOtherEvent+0x293) [0x8160023] 3: X(xf86eqProcessInputEvents+0x211) [0x80c9901] 4: X(ProcessInputEvents+0x29) [0x80db4f9] 5: X(Dispatch+0x7d) [0x8087fbd] 6: X(main+0x485) [0x806fa65] 7: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0x43e47f2c] 8: X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x1e9) [0x806eda1] Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting
Thanks for the bug report. We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue. Please attach your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) and X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log) to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link below. Could you please also try to run without any /etc/X11/xorg.conf whatsoever and let X11 autodetect your display and video card? Attach to this bug /var/log/Xorg.0.log from this attempt as well, please. We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information. Thanks in advance.
Created attachment 148638 [details] Xorg.conf file Here is the xorg.conf file that might cause the problem.
Created attachment 148639 [details] Xorg.0.log due to the crash Here is the Xorg.0.log file I get after a crash.
Created attachment 148640 [details] Xorg.0.log generated when I have no xorg.conf Removing xorg.conf and starting x again does *not* cause a crash upon a multimedia key press.
The explanation of your problem is really simple -- your original xorg.conf used nvidia binary-only driver, which crashed. Of course, when RedHat's Xorg autconfigures it never uses stuff like that, so now you are using open source nv driver, which doesn't use all the functionality of your video adapter, but apparently it works better. Standard text for nVidia binary-only driver users follows: Thanks for the report. 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).
I confirm that the X server crashes when any multimedia key is pressed. I have USB keyboard Genius Slimstar. The crash is not caused by proprietary nvidia drivers because I have ATI RS690. I do not have any xorg.conf. This may be relevant: xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.10.0-1.fc11.x86_64 xorg-x11-server-common-1.5.99.901-5.fc11.x86_64 kernel-2.6.28-0.113.rc7.git5.fc11.x86_64 I think this bugreport should be reopened.
(In reply to comment #6) > I confirm that the X server crashes when any multimedia key is pressed. I have > USB keyboard Genius Slimstar. The crash is not caused by proprietary nvidia > drivers because I have ATI RS690. I do not have any xorg.conf. This may be > relevant: > > xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.10.0-1.fc11.x86_64 > xorg-x11-server-common-1.5.99.901-5.fc11.x86_64 > kernel-2.6.28-0.113.rc7.git5.fc11.x86_64 Go and file a new bug about that (or find the most approriate one among https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=component%3Axorg-x11-drv-ati), but this bug is for nvidia driver, not ati.
sorry, in the last sentence you should read "chip" instead of "driver"