[SYSTEM] Gentoo AMD64 with app-emulation/vmware-player-1.0.2.29634 on KDE-3.5.5 and x11-base/xorg-server-1.1.1-r4. [PROBLEM] When VmWare-Player is in execution, if we press Ctrl+Alt+F1 the whole X server gets reset. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Kindly at least post emerge --info; also which graphics drivers and version are you using?
Created attachment 110044 [details] emerge --info
Created attachment 110045 [details] graphic drivers
Yesterday we updated the system and the bug persisted. But with today's updates the bug is not seen, so we assume it is solved with today's updates. We thank you for all!
The bug appeared again the next day. We've been trying to determine when the bug appears and arrived to this conclusion: - Now the X server breaks when pressing Ctrl + Alt + F1 and VmWare Player window is not visible. For example: it breaks when - pressing Ctrl + Alt + F1 and VmWare is minimized. - pressing Ctrl + Alt + F1 and we "are" in another desktop different from the one where VmWare is. - and so on. Note: If we make VmWare Player visible in all KDE desktops, it never fails.
x11-base/xorg-server-1.1.1-r4 is not in portage anymore; please close this bug, or update if still exist. => CLOSE or TEST-REQUEST
Please test with something uptodate.
We have tried and the results are the same, Ctrl+Alt+F1 has reseted the X server. The installed versions are: x11-base/xorg-server-1.3.0.0-r1 [latest stable] app-emulation/vmware-player-2.0.0.45731 [still masked] kde-base/kde-meta-3.5.7 [latest stable] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-100.14.09 [latest stable]
If this information can help: the processor is an AMD64, and Gentoo is compiled in 64 bits.
Wow ... where is Vmware running ??? inside X ? or Gentoo inside Vmware ? Nvidia is known to produce this kind of bugs since ages. Which driver are you using exactly ? with drm ? kernel driver ? (I ask, because, whatever is installed, we need to know what's inside your xorg.conf, and if you installed anything manually). Emerge -vp on those ebuilds may also help. Versions of packages is not enough. Your make.conf may have been altered, and not reflect whats compiles; you may have flags in /etc/portage/package.use ... so, only emerge -vp will tell exactly how you compiled this. Still, flags are "capabilities"; what's running depends on xorg.conf. Also try to run X with an other video driver (generics like vga, aa, caca), and if you can, switch the video card (just for testing purposes): an other Nv model (using same driver), and/or possible a non NV card (if you have hardware and time). This kind of dichotomic test may guide maints to isolate the bug, if it's driver specific, X specific, card spécific ... But if it's vmware, you should report to THEM !!! Yes a badly coded application can make anything crash ! To isolate this, try to press your keys while playing movies with mplayer, xine, games, or any application likely to do the same kind of access to the video card tham you vmware thing. /var/log/Xorg.0.log may also help Maybe an other thing could help: running X with high verbosity, something like xinit -- -verbose ...
MORE INFORMATION: - Vmware is running inside Gentoo+KDE. - The video card is the nVidia Corporation C51G [Geforce 6100]. SOURCE OF THE PROBLEM: - After some tests, it seems that the problem is in the nvidia driver. - It works well if we do: eselect opengl set 2 (xorg-x11). - The bug appears if we have done: eselect opengl set 1 (nvidia). - The problem appears independently of which virtual operating system is installed (W2K, WXP or Gentoo). - Nothing bad happens if we use the default "nv" driver.
Created attachment 133775 [details] emerge -vp xorg-server vmware-player kde-meta nvidia-drivers
Created attachment 133776 [details] xorg.conf
Only happens with the binary nvidia driver, reassigning.
this version of xorg-server has left the tree, closing.
