[arch-general] Anybody else have problems with the new Nvidia drivers (275.09.07-1)

Adriano Moura adriano.lols at gmail.com
Fri Jun 17 18:14:09 EDT 2011


275.09.07 here, no problems loading big images.
I do use a custom kernel with with a recompiled nvidia drivers, but I
doubt that would have anything to do with it.

2011/6/17 Yaro Kasear <yaro at marupa.net>:
> 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.
>>
>>
>> [1] http://www.abload.de/img/nvbugy7cd.jpg
>
> Are we sure ths is a bug with the nVidia driver? Can someone load that image
> who isn't using it?
>


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