Yaro Kasear [2011.06.17 1709 -0500]:
On Friday, June 17, 2011 04:10:01 PM Richard Schütz wrote:
The new driver really seems to have a major problem. I figured out that you just need an image with 2047px width to screw up the driver.
ATTENTION: This can crash your X server and corrupt memory!
Example: [1], an otherwise harmless picture. Every picture with the same width will work, too. I could trigger the bug at least with Firefox, Midori, Epiphany and EOG. It looks like some applications like Chromium alter the size, so they don't trigger it.
Are we sure ths is a bug with the nVidia driver? Can someone load that image who isn't using it?
Loaded the image without problems on my laptop with Intel Core i7 built-in graphics. On my desktop with GeForce 7500 GT, the screen flickers and then X crashes. Window manager, firefox version, etc. are the same on the two machines. Cheers, Norbert