nvidia problem

[Cyber Source]

OK, update on the issue, as I thought that the restart of the xserver
was necessary to prevent the crashing, I was wrong. I noticed that when
using gdm, the xserver will restart but when using kdm, it does not.
However, even now when I switched to using kdm, the xserver did not
restart, but it also did not crash, SO,,,, I guess it must have been one
of the package updates or a new nvidia driver....
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 13:05, Dave Andruczyk wrote:

> You can configure the display manager (xdm,gdm) to force a restart of the
> Xserver when a sessions is closed. (xdm does it by default), gdm needs to be
> told to do so.  The config files are typically in: 
> /etc/X11/{xdm, or gdm }
> in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf, there is a line 
> AlwaysRestartServer=true  true=restart the X server. False, means not to 
> 
> As for KDM, I'm unsure if it restarts or not.  It'd configuation is very
> similar to xdm, so I'm guessing it auto-restarts X on session logout.
> 
> 
> --- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
> > The nvidia problem has been fixed!!! Used to be that with the latest
> > kernel with amd cpu's that the xsession would not properly close. In
> > other words, if a user was running say tuxracer and had the nvidia
> > kernel driver installed on a system with an amd cpu and then they logged
> > out and another user logged in and tried to run anything like tuxracer
> > or mplayer, etc, there session would crash and then restart the xserver,
> > then they could log in and it would be ok. This happened on a Mandrake 9
> > box (Bob Meyer) and a RedHat 9 box (me) both with amd cpu's. I tried it
> > once with an Intel cpu and the problem did not happen, that system did
> > not have an 8x agp port(intel boards had not come out with them yet and
> > I suspected this might be an issue as well) but I noticed that on the
> > intel system, on log out, it would restart the xserver (you would see
> > the nvidia splash screen) then it would load the xdm(kdm or gdm) and the
> > crashing did not occur. SO,,,, on a recent install of RedHat 9 on a
> > system with the same AMD cpu and 8x AGP port with the same nvidia card,
> > this did not crash anymore and just like the intel system, it restarted
> > the xserver on logout. I am not sure but I think that the nvidia driver
> > is the same version as I had before so it may have come with an updated
> > package, as I always update the system via the RedHat Network. Anyone
> > else notice this improvement?
> > -- 
> > Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>
> > 
> 
> =====
> Dave J. Andruczyk
> 
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