[Bug 650539] Re: Launching QT apps under Xinerama crashes Xorg : affects SpeedCrunch, KeePassX, Lucky Backup, Pencil, Stellarium, Skype, Google Earth, VLC, Konqueror, VirtualBox, Opera ...

[Jérôme]

That doesn't work for me, but maybe for others it will, as I'm one of the
few tht have this issue with only one monitor (the laptop one) and even I
use the twinview mode when using 2.

On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 2:19 PM, kion <650539 at bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:

> nVidia just released new stable version of drivers - 260.19.12.
>
> Among other changes there're few following related to Xinerama:
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> * Enhanced VDPAU to fully support Xinerama.
> * Fixed a bug in the X driver that prevented operation of Xinerama when
> using
>     multiple NVIDIA GPUs from different major hardware generations
>     on X with ABI 4 or greater.
> * Fixed a bug in the OpenGL driver's Xinerama support.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> This would probably (hopefully) fix an issue.
>
> PPA with fresh nVidia driver builds is here:
> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates
>
> Can anyone test? (I'm currently fine with old versions of xorg/xserver -
> see my solution posted above, so do not want to break anything until i'm
> sure it will help - but it would be nice if someone who still has this
> issue can test new version of nVidia drivers and report if it helps to
> fix an issue)
>
> --
> Launching QT apps under Xinerama crashes Xorg : affects SpeedCrunch,
> KeePassX, Lucky Backup, Pencil, Stellarium, Skype, Google Earth, VLC,
> Konqueror, VirtualBox, Opera ...
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/650539
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> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers” package in Ubuntu: New
> Status in “qt4-x11” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
> Status in “xorg” package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> I think this may be related to QT apps, as keepassx, skype also crash X
> when started
> This is on maverick will all current updates.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
> Package: speedcrunch 0.10.1-2
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
> Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Tue Sep 28 12:29:04 2010
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: speedcrunch
> ---
> Architecture: amd64
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: xorg 1:7.5+6ubuntu3
> PackageArchitecture: amd64
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
> Tags: maverick
> Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
> UnreportableReason: The drivers from nvidia.com are not supported by
> Ubuntu.  Please uninstall them and test whether your problem still occurs.
> UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare video
> system:
>  distro:             Ubuntu
>  codename:           maverick
>  architecture:       x86_64
>  kernel:             2.6.35-22-generic
>
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