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

[Martti Kühne]

On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Richard Schütz <r.schtz at t-online.de> wrote:
> Am 18.06.2011 09:08, schrieb Dan Vratil:
> I don't think so. Epiphany is based on WebKit these days. And because I can
> trigger the bug in EOG (Eye of GNOME) it doesn't look like a browser problem
> for me at all.
>
> Perhaps it is a problem of GTK together with nvidia 275.09.07. I tried feh
> (a simple X11 image viewer that doesn't use GTK or Qt) and it works fine
> without flickering, artifacts or something else strange.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Richard Schütz
>

Update, I also see anything but the picture when the bug occurs,
namely random garbage. I can confirm that feh, launched the regular
way does not trigger the bug, although, also I have to confirm that
display (imagemagick-6.6.9.8-1) actually does trigger the bug.
Actually my guess is feh restricts itself to become larger than the
screen's resolution (which is smaller than 2047 here) and thus is just
not storing the full resolution image in video memory. I just managed
to something like trigger the bug, X hang for about 4 seconds here and
will display some garbage, with

$ feh --geometry 2047x1529 nvbugy7cd.jpg

heh, after trying this several times, the hang disappears. Might this
be related to caching?

cheers!