Re: libc6 and X11 seem not to work together

[Mark Allums <mark@allums.com>]

Norval Watson wrote:
> > > > From what Hans reported, it was my impression this is related to the Xorg 
> > Radeon
> > > > (ati) drivers, not to NVidia or something else ?
> > > Yes, my system (working) runs Nvidia drivers, self-compiled 2.6.29 realtime 
> > kernel
> > > Norv
> > I have Nvidia GeForce 7000M and it is not working.
> >
> > I just installed Stable and everything works nicely. If I (just/only) 
> > upgrade my system to Testing then the X does not work.
>
> kernel 2.6.29.1-rt8-rt-200904211039 #1 SMP PREEMPT RT  x86_64 GNU/Linux
> +++-==============-==============-============================================
> ii  libc6          2.9-26         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii  nvidia-glx     180.44-2       NVIDIA binary Xorg driver
> ii  xserver-xorg-c 2:1.6.4-1      Xorg X server - core server
>
> I think the card is Nvidia 7600, system is current debian sid, but nvidia-glx might be one down from current
> HTH
> Norv


The non-3D (default) nvidia drivers do not function properly with some 
7600s, in particular, the 7600 GT.  I must use another driver with mine. 
 I use the nvidia proprietary blob[0], it works fine.

Mark Allums

0. binary large object, packaged as a shell and perl script