On Sunday 23 Sep 2007, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Hello all, > > there is a heavy bug in NVidias driver. The bug let the whole system > unexpectly freeze. But, this is not a Debian related problem, it is caused > by the binary part of NVidias accelarator driver and touches most other > distributions, too (like SuSE, RedHat etc.) > > Please see the discussion on NVidias website. > > This bug is known in version 100.14.11, too and it is only discovered on > 64-bit-systems. 32-bit is running fine ! > > It can be proved, the bug is NOT in the nvidia-kernel-source (dear > maintainer, you did good work, thanks !) > > I can advice you, still not to upgrade to the latest driver, as this is > also upgrading xserver-xorg to a higher version, which is incompatible to > the prior versions. > > Because of this, downgrading is very, very difficult. > > As I saiud, the bug seam to appear only in 64-bit-systems and mostly at > 7300GS cards (NVS 110), but the second thing could not be proved clearly, > yet. > > So, just stay at 100.14.09. > > If you have a running 100.14.11 you can safely update to 100.14.19 ! > > Please do understand this mail only as advice, I had much much problems, to > get my system running again and I just want to pretend you from the same > problems.
Which is one more reason -- as if you needed another one -- NOT to use binary-only drivers. Why are the IT ministries of the world not standing up for our RIGHT to access the Source Code and BANNING binary-only drivers? Keep it i-tal, buy only hardware which has Open Source drivers; and keep campaigning to your elected representative. We need Freedom Three as much today as we ever have. -- AJS delta echo bravo six four at earthshod dot co dot uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
