X-server crash?

[Martin Airs]

On Sunday 16 Dec 2012 13:24:49 Martin Airs wrote:
> On Saturday 15 Dec 2012 23:37:57 yotestalker wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Recently, whenever I launched a video with totem, my screen would go
> > black and I'd end up back at the FC17 login screen. I was using the
> > akmod-nvidia and kmod-nvidia drivers. I switched over to VLC as my
> > default video player and the problem seemed to be solved; however, It's
> > now doing the same thing whenever I try to launch google chrome. The
> > screen goes black and I end up back at the login screen. It does it in
> > both KDE and XFCE. Has anybody else seen this?
> 
> You might find in your Xorg.0.log that it complains it couldn't load GLX
> 
> I had this too, I just had to make sure these lines were in my xorg.conf
> 
> Section "Files"
>     FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1"
>     ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/nvidia/xorg"
>     ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
> EndSection
> 
> you might find these lines in it, and for some reason it loads the GLX
> driver....
> 
> ModulePath      "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
> ModulePath      "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers"
> ModulePath      "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
> 
> Martin

sorry just to add, I found if glxinfo or glxgears didn't work, then chrome 
would indeed bomb X out to the login screen

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