[arch-general] Segmentation fault in X after last upgrade

[Xavier]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Lars Tennstedt <oss at larstennstedt.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> it seems that the NVIDIA developers will only fix it if they have time to do
> it. I guess that the legacy driver does not have a high priority.
>
> I tried the nouveau driver and it works on my old GeForce 3 even with
> compositing. It is a little bit slow but it does the job. Thanks for the
> hint.
> But on my other computer the nouveau driver does not work with a GeForce 7.
> It is weird. Two NVIDIA graphic cards and one needs the closed source driver
> and the another one the open source one.
>
>

Geforce 7 should work, see the links in
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nouveau#Installation

If it does not work at all, you should report that to upstream developers.
Maybe try first the latest packages which have just been moved to extra today.