[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-151: GNOME crashes but not KDE 4.6

[Alex Lam S.L.]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Guido Berhoerster
<gber at openindiana.org> wrote:
> * Alex Lam S.L. <alexlamsl at gmail.com> [2011-07-20 12:37]:
>> So after updating the nvidia driver as suggested and still get frozen
>> desktop every few days (SSH to restart gdm will rectify the issue
>> without the need to reset the PC), I have decided to take the other
>> suggestion and give KDE a go.
>>
>> I followed the instructions on this page:
>>
>>   http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_on_Solaris/OpenSolaris
>>
>> and fetched my copy from here (thanks for the hard work guys!):
>>
>>   http://solaris.bionicmutton.org/pkg/4.6.0
>>
>> ... and it just works.
>>
>> After that, I have been running the server PC for two weeks without
>> any frozen desktop issues.
>>
>> So I wonder if this is a GNOME-specific issue? Or is this still a
>> nvidia driver issue, just that faulty functionality in question is
>> used by GNOME but not KDE?
>
> The latter is likely though speculation without further
> information, there were a couple of reports linking such freezes
> on both Nvidia and Intel hardware to Compiz. You might want to
> review whether
> https://www.illumos.org/issues/1135
> https://www.illumos.org/issues/1161
> https://www.illumos.org/issues/1127
> describe your problem and try whether you can reproduce it on the
> experimental /dev-il repo (http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev-il)
> which has a newer Nvidia driver than /dev. You might also want to
> try whether using Metacity instead of Compiz still results in
> freezes.

I'll give the newer Nvidia driver a go. (I upgraded once before, but
that was from /dev I guess.)


Alex.

P.S. really? "dev-il"? <8o)


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> version of OI you are running and include the Xorg logfile.
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> Guido Berhoerster
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