Beware of nvidia-graphics 1.0-7664

[Nils Philippsen]

On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 16:14 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 03:41:58PM +0200, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> My symptoms are display goes black, but never returns. The system works
> fine though, but a headless laptop is no joy ... :/

Have you tried the workaround yet?

> > > 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 ;-).
> 
> 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.

Well, mplayer doesn't use libXvMC here:

nils at gibraltar:~> rpm -q mplayer --requires | grep -i xvmc
nils at gibraltar:~>

Perhaps you shouldn't build mplayer against nvidia's libraries?

Nils
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