Re: 4.2.0 nVidia driver comments (updated)
On Aug 08, Chris Lawrence wrote:
> Thanks, Branden, for including the nv driver backport in the latest
> 4.2.0 prerelease (which added support for the GeForce2 Go). I tried
> switching from the *gag* non-free binary driver to nv, and it mostly
> worked, with the following caveats:
I finally got around to upgrading my laptop this morning to 4.2.0-pre1v4
(4.2.1 hasn't made it to the XSF mirror I pull my mirror from).
> - Segfault when the glx driver was loaded. There were two unresolved
> _gl symbols in the X server backtrace; I can get the trace if that
> will help some. (Rebooting without the nvidia binary module loaded
> did not help any.)
Fixed by purging nvidia-glx. (Thanks for the hint, Michael.) Might
be worth a note in the changelog or driver status document.
> - The mouse cursor didn't render right; it was small, red, and in two
> more-or-less identical pieces about 30 pixels apart separated by a
> bit of pixel garbage. (Probably using a software cursor would have
> fixed this.)
Fixed now (since -pre1v3).
Definitely cool to be back running a 100% free X again :-) Great work
by Branden and the upstream X team, as always.
Chris
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