Bug#342817: Apparent hang of X.org with the nv open source driver

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Ross Boylan wrote:
> Unfortunately, after the last upgrade of xorg the proprietary driver
> broke.

Look at the bottom of
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=420177
It could help.

> So I tried the open-source one.  It still doesn't work, locking
> up the  entire system :(
>
> I'm using vesa for now.
>
> This was with 
> ii  xserver-xorg-video-nv                1:2.0.2-1
>   

There's also 1:2.0.96-1 in experimental, in case you want to try before
going back to nvidia.

> I believe I backed out the proprietary changes properly (commented out
> glx and nvidia, as well as the disabling of DRI and glcore--i.e., tested
> with dri and glcore enabled).
>   

Thanks for the followup.

Brice