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xorg package

  1. Bug #140554
  2. Comment #39

Comment 39 for bug 140554

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tim (predefining) wrote : Re: X crashes gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0

I've read in a mailing list that the problem might be related to the CPU cooling (see http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20071130.161708.b95eae51.de.html#debian-user-german). In my case it's been true. Is anyone able to confirm it?

Does the problem also occur when you're not using any desktop effects like disabling compiz?

If this doesn't change anything it's probably most likely that the error has been caused by the GDM or are there any reports that the error also occurs on KDE? There are two possibilites; The first one is to use the kDM instead of the GDM (that's the login manager of KDE). And the second one would be not to rely on using any login manager. Therefore we could use rungetty which allows you to login directly.