Re: nvidia-glx 100.14.19 freezes the whole system
On Sunday 23 Sep 2007, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> there is a heavy bug in NVidias driver. The bug let the whole system
> unexpectly freeze. But, this is not a Debian related problem, it is caused
> by the binary part of NVidias accelarator driver and touches most other
> distributions, too (like SuSE, RedHat etc.)
>
> Please see the discussion on NVidias website.
>
> This bug is known in version 100.14.11, too and it is only discovered on
> 64-bit-systems. 32-bit is running fine !
>
> It can be proved, the bug is NOT in the nvidia-kernel-source (dear
> maintainer, you did good work, thanks !)
>
> I can advice you, still not to upgrade to the latest driver, as this is
> also upgrading xserver-xorg to a higher version, which is incompatible to
> the prior versions.
>
> Because of this, downgrading is very, very difficult.
>
> As I saiud, the bug seam to appear only in 64-bit-systems and mostly at
> 7300GS cards (NVS 110), but the second thing could not be proved clearly,
> yet.
>
> So, just stay at 100.14.09.
>
> If you have a running 100.14.11 you can safely update to 100.14.19 !
>
> Please do understand this mail only as advice, I had much much problems, to
> get my system running again and I just want to pretend you from the same
> problems.
Which is one more reason -- as if you needed another one -- NOT to use
binary-only drivers. Why are the IT ministries of the world not standing up
for our RIGHT to access the Source Code and BANNING binary-only drivers?
Keep it i-tal, buy only hardware which has Open Source drivers; and keep
campaigning to your elected representative. We need Freedom Three as much
today as we ever have.
--
AJS
delta echo bravo six four at earthshod dot co dot uk
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