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

[Mike Sampson]

On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Richard Schütz <r.schtz at t-online.de> 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

Image loads fine in Chromium. In Firefox 4 it eventually displays a
black rectangle after both of my screens flicker for several seconds.

Packages:

kernel26 2.6.39.1-1
nvidia 275.09.07-1
nvidia-utils 275.09.07-1