I've been getting infrequent lockups running a Gentoo 2.4 kernel, Xfree 4.30, Nvidia GeForce440mx, Athlon 2600+ and nForce2 chipset. Am using the modules that "emerge nvidia-kernel" builds for video. A bit of hunting found kdm.log and the crash time is right to the second: XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1 Release Date: 15 August 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.25-gentoo-r1 i686 [ELF] Build Date: 15 August 2004 Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/ to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Sun Sep 26 18:27:29 2004 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config" (EE) NVIDIA(0): vm86() syscall generated signal 4. (II) Initializing extension GLX Creating menu entries for kdm in /usr/kde/3.2/share/config/kdm/sessions... QImage::convertDepth: Image is a null image QImage::smoothScale: Image is a null image SetClientVersion: 0 7 The system becomes completely unresponsive and requires a hard reboot each time :( Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Turn on computer 2. Log in... 3. Portage 2.0.50-r5 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.25-gentoo-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.25-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp:///ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://mirror.averse.net/pub/gentoo/ ftp://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acpi apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dvd dvdr encode esd firebird foomaticdb gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hardened icq imlib java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww lirc mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg msn mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oscar oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd truetype x86 xinerama xml2 xmms xprint xv yahoo zlib"
I don't see anything related to kdm (except that the log is generated by it) Like you'll see the crash is related to the xserver, probably if you try to don't run kdm you'll get the same crash. So I think that this bug should be reassigned.
Which nvidia-kernel are you using? Can you please try 1.0.6629 if you are not.
reassigning as this is not related to kde...
Reopen this if its still a problem and lets us know how its going...