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

[Martin]

Loads fine here with Opera. By the way, nice picture  ;)

Nvidia 9600M GT
kernel26-ck-core2 1:2.6.39.1-3
nvidia-ck-core2 275.09.07-1
KDE 4.6.3

On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 10:56:06 -0400, Yaro Kasear <yaro at marupa.net> wrote:

> 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?