[Xastir] X segfaults when starting Xastir (Ubuntu 10.04)

[Scott Evans]

On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 11:19 -0400, Kevin Ratcliff wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Jeremy Utley <jerutley at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I trimmed the above a little, but you won't replicate it in a VM.
> > This particular segfault was triggered in the nouveau video card
> > driver - nouveau is the reverse-engineered open-source Nvidia driver.
> 
> Thanks Jeremy, that's the information I needed!
> 
> > Does Ubuntu give you the ability to use the Nvidia driver instead?
> > You might try that and see what happens.
> 
> I'm not sure, but I'll check on the Nvidia driver. The machine is an
> old P4, and I had thrown a spare video card in it. Perhaps if I can't
> change drivers the quick solution would be to stick a different video
> card in there. I think I have some others.
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> Kevin
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Yes you can use the Nvida drivers in ubuntu lucid, but you may encounter
some issues with plymouth! (only visual during boot) depending on the
model Nvida card used.

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