The crash is for both drivers vesa and fbdev the same: *** glibc detected *** ksplashx: double free or corruption (out): 0x0849f158 *** ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(+0x6b611)[0x270611] /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(+0x6ce68)[0x271e68] /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(cfree+0x6d)[0x274f2d] /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(+0x22899)[0x8e2899] ksplashx[0x8057841] ksplashx[0x805a9cf] ksplashx[0x804a805] /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6)[0x21bbd6] ksplashx[0x804a641] ======= Memory map: ======== 00110000-001f9000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 446 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.13 001f9000-001fd000 r--p 000e9000 08:05 446 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.13 001fd000-001fe000 rw-p 000ed000 08:05 446 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.13 001fe000-00205000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 00205000-00352000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 159291 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.11.1.so 00352000-00353000 ---p 0014d000 08:05 159291 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.11.1.so 00353000-00355000 r--p 0014d000 08:05 159291 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.11.1.so 00355000-00356000 rw-p 0014f000 08:05 159291 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.11.1.so 00356000-00359000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 00359000-00375000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 1060 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 00375000-00376000 r--p 0001b000 08:05 1060 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 00376000-00377000 rw-p 0001c000 08:05 1060 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 00377000-00379000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 1570 /usr/lib/libXau.so.6.0.0 00379000-0037a000 r--p 00001000 08:05 1570 /usr/lib/libXau.so.6.0.0 0037a000-0037b000 rw-p 00002000 08:05 1570 /usr/lib/libXau.so.6.0.0 00470000-00493000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 1057 /lib/libpng12.so.0.42.0 00493000-00494000 r--p 00022000 08:05 1057 /lib/libpng12.so.0.42.0 00494000-00495000 rw-p 00023000 08:05 1057 /lib/libpng12.so.0.42.0 0050b000-0052f000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 159484 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm-2.11.1.so 0052f000-00530000 r--p 00023000 08:05 159484 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm-2.11.1.so 00530000-00531000 rw-p 00024000 08:05 159484 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm-2.11.1.so 00610000-00612000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 159483 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl-2.11.1.so 00612000-00613000 r--p 00001000 08:05 159483 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl-2.11.1.so 00613000-00614000 rw-p 00002000 08:05 159483 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl-2.11.1.so 008c0000-009d9000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 1607 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.3.0 009d9000-009da000 r--p 00118000 08:05 1607 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.3.0 009da000-009dc000 rw-p 00119000 08:05 1607 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.3.0 009dc000-009dd000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 00a38000-00a3c000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 1603 /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6.0.0 00a3c000-00a3d000 r--p 00003000 08:05 1603 /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6.0.0 00a3d000-00a3e000 rw-p 00004000 08:05 1603 /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6.0.0 00aa3000-00abe000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 662 /lib/ld-2.11.1.so 00abe000-00abf000 r--p 0001a000 08:05 662 /lib/ld-2.11.1.so 00abf000-00ac0000 rw-p 0001b000 08:05 662 /lib/ld-2.11.1.so 00ad9000-00af1000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 1605 /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1.1.0 00af1000-00af2000 r--p 00017000 08:05 1605 /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1.1.0 00af2000-00af3000 rw-p 00018000 08:05 1605 /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1.1.0 00c79000-00c7b000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 4221 /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1.0.0 00c7b000-00c7c000 r--p 00001000 08:05 4221 /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1.0.0 00c7c000-00c7d000 rw-p 00002000 08:05 4221 /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1.0.0 00d65000-00d78000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 519 /lib/libz.so.1.2.3.3 00d78000-00d79000 r--p 00012000 08:05 519 /lib/libz.so.1.2.3.3 00d79000-00d7a000 rw-p 00013000 08:05 519 /lib/libz.so.1.2.3.3 00e7d000-00e8b000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 1622 /usr/lib/libXext.so.6.4.0 00e8b000-00e8c000 r--p 0000d000 08:05 1622 /usr/lib/libXext.so.6.4.0 00e8c000-00e8d000 rw-p 0000e000 08:05 1622 /usr/lib/libXext.so.6.4.0 00f42000-00f43000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] 08048000-08062000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 3618 /usr/bin/ksplashx 08062000-08063000 r--p 00019000 08:05 3618 /usr/bin/ksplashx 08063000-08064000 rw-p 0001a000 08:05 3618 /usr/bin/ksplashx 08064000-08066000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 0836e000-084c0000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] b7300000-b7321000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b7321000-b7400000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 b7420000-b7725000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b7738000-b773b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 bfec0000-bfec7000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack]