Bug#342817: Apparent hang of X.org with the nv open source driver
On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 00:44 +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
> 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.
Thanks so much for pointing that out. It worked. I saw that bug, but I
missed the last part. I was working with lynx and limited screen
real-estate, though.
I spent the last couple of hours in X hell. vesa kinda worked, but
fonts didn't show up in emacs, though they were OK for other apps for
some odd reason.
>
> > 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.
Enough experimenting for one day :)
>
> > 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
>
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