Beware of nvidia-graphics 1.0-7664

[dragoran]

Axel Thimm wrote:

>On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 03:41:58PM +0200, Nils Philippsen wrote:
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>>On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 11:22 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
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>>>On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 10:24:08AM +0200, Nils Philippsen wrote:
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>>>>Note that this driver version broke suspend/resume for me (oh the joys
>>>>of proprietary software with a proprietary development model), the
>>>>display gets garbled. After some dabbling with it I found a workaround,
>>>>though: Setting the display to DPMS suspend, then on again brought the
>>>>card back into a semi-sane state (X works, text console are still
>>>>garbled).
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>>>Yes, I had to find that out myself when the screensaver kicked in
>>>killing two hours of work ... :/
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>>Hmm, screensavers work just fine here, I only had problems with
>>suspend/resume until I implemented the workaround.
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>My symptoms are display goes black, but never returns. The system works
>fine though, but a headless laptop is no joy ... :/
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>>>Also XvMC libs are broken :/
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>>Care to elaborate? I don't see these in the livna RPMs I use, but maybe
>>they're just missing ;-).
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>libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1 is refencing _nv0019XvMCdynamic which does
>not exist. You'll only hit it if you use XvMC, e.g. mplayer/mythtv/xine etc.
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I have send a mail to nvidia about this issue but no replay yet :(