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Bug 124375

Summary: problem with startx (AMD64/NVidia)
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: £ukasz Wierzbicki <wierzbadark>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Jeffrey Forman (RETIRED) <jforman>
Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: AMD64   
OS: Other   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description £ukasz Wierzbicki 2006-02-28 01:19:58 UTC
i install xorg, nvidia devices...and when i want to startx I see blackscreen. Using trl+alt+backspace doesn't work. 
I read manual...and try to do as there war writen...but there is no efect:( 
i look to var/log/xorg.0.log and found that: 

(II)Loading Extension NV-GLX 
(EE)NVIDIA(0): Failed to obtain a shared memory identifier. 
(II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleratiion architecture 
(--)NVIDIA(0):Backing store disabled 
(--)NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled 
(II)NVIDIA(0): Loading extension NV-Control 

Fatal Server Error: 
Caught Signal 11. Server aborting 

my card is : PCI E GeForce 6600 

(one time for a short time i see nvidia's logo )
Comment 1 Mike Doty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-02-28 01:26:28 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 124376 ***
Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-02-28 03:01:14 UTC
Wrong product...