[arch-general] Xorg broken after last update

[Dan Vratil]

On Sunday 02 August 2009 00:28:42 Edgar Kalkowski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I somewhere read something about the latest nvidia driver being broken for
> notebook chips. I’m not sure if this is correct or was just an issue with
> the beta drivers but especially as you mention that it worked again after
> changing to vesa drivers I thought this might be the case here.
This bug was related only to nvidia-beta, release 190.16 and it was fixed in 
version 190.18. It has never touched the stable drivers.

(Btw I was trying to track down some informations now abput 190.16, but it 
seems guys from nVidia removed the announcement thread from nvnews.net and 
nvidia.com drivers pages are out of order (E404) :-) )
>
> I’m using nvidia drivers for my notebook as well but have not yet updated
> them because I read that it might cause problems. Are you, too, running a
> notebook? If so I’d be interested to hear if the latest nvidia drivers work
> ok for you.
>
> Edgar
>
> Am oder ungefähr am Samstag, 01. August 2009, um 23:58:58 schrieb Luís 
Moreira:
> > Hello.
> >
> > The last update broke my Xorg, the screen just goesn black and hangs
> > there, CTRL+ALT+F1 (etc) doesn't do anything.
> >
> > I'm using X86_64, *without* [testing].
> >
> > The updated packages were
> >
> > kernel26
> > nvidia
> > xorg-server
> > (and some others, less important)
> >
> > If I change the driver in xorg.conf from nvidia to vesa X works again.
> >
> > Anyone experienced the same thing?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Luís Moreira.

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