Xserver restarts (NVIDIA issues)

[Cyber Source]

Yep, that worked for me, now my kdm on rh9 restarts the xserver on
logouts, however, it is not necessary with the new nvidia driver, either
that or it was one of the updated packages, didnt really notice but its
rockin now
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 21:52, Robert Meyer wrote:

> As has already been posted, Peter and I have had problems with Athlon
> processors and NVIDIA GeForce boards.  The problem is that for some reason the
> Xserver was not being reset between logins, causing problems with anything that
> used the XVideo extension.  Peter runs various RedHat distributions and I use
> Mandrake 9.0 ('cuz I haven't gotten around to upgrading to 9.1 :-).
> 
> Someone posted about the GDM config that forces a server restart before posting
> a login.  I had looked for the equivalent for KDM but was unable to find it in
> the documentation or in any of the configuration tools.
> 
> I tried running 'strings' on /usr/bin/kdm and got nowhere so I poked around in
> everything that had 'kdm' as part of it's name.  I finally found
> 'TerminateServer' in /usr/bin/kdm-config (which is an executable that you can't
> run outside of kdm) and went into /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc to add it.  The
> appropriate section looks like:
> [X-:0-Core]
> Authorize=true
> AutoLogin1st=true
> AutoLoginEnable=false
> Reset=/etc/X11/xdm/TakeConsole
> Setup=/etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0
> Startup=/etc/X11/xdm/GiveConsole
> TerminateServer=true
> 
> I logged out and restarted my X-server with Alt-Ctrl-Backspace.  Now when I log
> out, I get the full server reset and an NVIDIA logo pops up for a second, just
> like when it first starts.
> 
> I don't know if Mandrake 9.1 provides access to this configuration variable
> from any of the tools.  Maybe I'll send them a note...
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Bob
> 
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