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

[Yaro Kasear]

On Saturday, June 18, 2011 04:57:07 AM Richard Schütz wrote:
> Am 18.06.2011 11:29, schrieb 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!
> 
> Yes, you are right: display crashed my X server right now. So this seems
> to be even unrelated to the toolkit.

Okay, so, has anyone filed a bug report with nVidia?