Hi all!

I have a SONY VAIO PCG-GRT816M Notebook, P4 2.8 Ghz, nVidia GeForce FX
Go5600 videocard. I have real difficulties installing Mandrake 10.0 on it. KDE and GNOME fail to start properly with constant crash messages for various applications: mandrakegalaxy.real, kcminit, ksplash, knotify. They all cause the signal 11 (SIGSEGV) to be sent.

As I don't know what the problem is related to, let me resume the different obstacles I encountered and how I solved them. I may have performed bad operations...

First I had to boot typing "linux noapic" at the boot prompt or the default kernel would hang just after checking the hard disk.

Then I would proceed through the installation procedure just fine, and reboot the machine. There, problem with the Xserver that fails to start, and no graphical interface would show up.

I installed the driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1 (frankly I ignore the real meaning of this syntax) and modified the "Device" Section of the XF86config file for the following option:

Identifier "VESADevice"
Driver "vesa"

I have actually no idea if this is the good option of driver but I managed to make it work anyway. So finally I could get the graphical interface, but KDE keeps on crashing at every userlogin, for applications kcminit, ksplash, knotify, mandrakegalaxy.real... And then freezes after closing all messages!

Does anyone have a brilliant idea to propose me?

Thanks in advance,
mdlc

Signal 11 means that a program tried to access memory outside its allocated memory, I don't know much on how to fix this sort of thing, but theres a FAQ that people get referred to all the time at: http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/. You may try reading that... I have only had the problem once, and it was just a test thing so I did not fix it, I just stop doing it...

I hope that FAQ helps, I have never read it so I cant say if it will or not...

Andrew

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Andrew nrd.

I had similar problems on a Nvidia based destop (the same crash at kde start) and it was solved as i changed the X86Config-4 settings from "mesa" to "nvidia".

(I meant vesa instead of mesa (...))

Here is a short dump of my X config file :

Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
VendorName "NVidia"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection

I took the latest drivers from nvidia website (...x86-1.0-6111..)
Hope it help.