Beware of nvidia-graphics 1.0-7664 (was: nvidia-glx-1.0.7664-0.lvn.1.3.src.rpm)

[Nils Philippsen]

On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 11:22 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 10:24:08AM +0200, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> > 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).
> 
> Yes, I had to find that out myself when the screensaver kicked in
> killing two hours of work ... :/

Hmm, screensavers work just fine here, I only had problems with
suspend/resume until I implemented the workaround.

> Also XvMC libs are broken :/

Care to elaborate? I don't see these in the livna RPMs I use, but maybe
they're just missing ;-).

Nils
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