Bug#513904: Xorg runaway in NVSync(), see #336774
* Brice Goglin [2009-02-02 12:50:32 +0100]:
> Any chance you try with a more recent driver? 2.0.3 is old. We have
> 2.1.10 in testing/unstable and 2.1.12 in experimental?
Been thinking about that, but it looks like 2.1.10 build-depends on
xserver-xorg-dev (>= 2:1.4), so a backport to etch may not be entirely
trivial. This is a production system, I can't very well turn my user
into a guinea pig; he's got work to do. I've only just started preparing
our upgrade to lenny.
I can give backporting 2.1.10 a try, but I don't have a lot of time to
spare. Upgrading to lenny will happen, but probably not before release.
I should have mentioned that the hardware this happens on is an
NV37GL (Quadro NVS280, Dell OEM). Since we have several machines with
these, all running etch, and only one is misbehaving, I'm suspecting
either hardware or the user's specific application mix. The latter
seems unlikely, however: the problem appeared while gnome-screensaver
was running. (Still, it could be the result of earlier memory corruption
or what not.)
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