Bug#370709: xserver-xorg-video-nv: system hang in NVSync() when scrolling programs or terminal windows
Package: xserver-xorg-video-nv
Version: 1:1.0.1.5-2
Severity: important
Hello.
My X hangs sometimes when scrolling aterm and programs listbox.
I made a previouse bugreport (soon two years ago):
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=277309
Go and look at that report for full story.
I did some folwups, but have more to tell now.
(What I have done since then, was holding back the update, with /etc/apt/preferences:
Package: xserver-xfree86
Pin: release v=6.8.2.dfsg.1-10
Pin-Priority: 1001
BUT now when the names, and dependencies have changed.. It's getting
harder to hold it back. )
The bug isn't active when "NoAccel" are set.
And I find that "ShadowFB" set, also fix the problem.
(But these two fixes have it's own problems.. As, my tv-card doesn't
work with "ShadowFB", and mouse scrolling looks terible with "NoAccel".)
And.. I have done some compiling of this package, and believe the problem
isn't in this package, ehe! Here is the loong story: I reversed all the
changes done on the nv.o/nv.so source files, in this package, so it match the last recorded stable version (6.8.. in then xfree86, there wasn't that many changes).
But the driver I produced have the same problem. So.. the bug must be
traced to some of the includes headers things, of whatever dependens I
can't dig that deep.
Any ideer what?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-686
Locale: LANG=sv_SE, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.ISO-8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to sv_SE)
Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-nv depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii xserver-xorg-core 1:1.0.2-8 X.Org X server -- core server
xserver-xorg-video-nv recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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