Bug#342817: No joy in X land
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 05:51:43PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> reassign 342817 xserver-xorg
> retitle 342817 Apparent hang of X.org with the nv open source driver
> thanks
>
> > I've gotten the video card to work by using the Debianized version of
> > the proprietary driver with the 2.6.12-i686-smp kernel and headers
> > (name is approximate, but it's the right flavor).
> >
> > It also works with vga driver, confirming the problem is with the
> > open-source nv driver. Someone on the xorg list said there was a
> > known bug and suggested I try the latest 6.9 RC3. I built the latest
> > Debianized version I could find, which was RC2, and it still has the
> > problem.
>
>
> So, the general solution to this is using a future version of X.org
> server, namely 6.9 RC3, which would better support your video card....
>
> This means we should reassign this bug wherever it pertains...
>
> Thanks for your patience investigating this bug. I'm pretty sure that
> the Debian X Striking Force will deal with it in the future.
Right. Thanks Christian for beating me to this.
Ross, I've not worked on RC3 mainly because there didn't seem to be a need
for it. I'll try and get RC3 in to the svn repo and uploaded to
experimental ASAP so you can test whether or not it fixes your issue.
- David Nusinow
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