On 12/30/2013, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 12/26/2013 12:03 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote:
It's also happening now with Firefox as well (in fact, Firefox is virtually unusable) so I suspect there is something happening with either this machine or the OS.
Are you running the proprietary NVIDIA driver? (either the one from elrepo OR manually building from the NVIDIA site)
If so, the recent xorg-x11-server updates require that you rebuild (or reinstall) the drivers as those drivers replace some xorg files and if you do not reinstall it can freeze the system or crash X.
Another thing you can do if you are using the NVIDIA drivers is add the following to /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia" ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1"
See http://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=425 for more details.
By fixing the xorg.conf file, you do not have to worry about this problem re-occurring next time xorg gets upgraded.
This issue drove me crazy for about 2 weeks until I realized that the wrong drivers were getting loaded.
HTH
Regards,
Tom me@tdiehl.org Spamtrap address me123@tdiehl.org