Re: Nvidia binary blob and libcairo2 1.10+

[Odair Augusto Trujillo Orozco <haldrik@gmail.com>]

2012/7/15 hvw59601 <hvw59601@care2.com>:
> Dan Serban wrote:
>>
>> For those unaware, running wheezy or squeeze + backports while using the
>> Nvidia binary blob (and in some cases nouveau) drawing _anything_ in X is
>> painful, it can take seconds to respond to a mouse click, or
>> minimizing/maximizing a window.  Scrolling speed is horrendous as well.
>>
>> For the months that I've experienced this problem, I've been waiting for
>> Debian to step up and either find a workaround or fix the issue.
>>
>> The issue from what I understand stems from libcairo enabling features
>> that
>> the Nvidia driver blob cannot cope with.
>>
>> The bug is reported here:
>>
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=616308
>>
>> Reading through that bug report, it seems that this has been an issue for
>> some time, a patch is provided and I have successfully upgraded to my own
>> package which includes the patch.
>>
>> My question is:  Am I alone here?
>
>
> <snip>
>
> No you are not. I pinned libcairo, easier than patching it.
>
> Hugo
>
>

I pinned libcairo too, to squeeze-backports version.
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