tag 642497 upstream moreinfo thanks On 2011-09-23 05:30, jack wrote: > I had nvidia-glx and X running well on Wheezy installed July 23,2011 on a new > PC with an NVIDIA 560 Ti card. > After an apt-get upgrade on August 17, the OpenGL features are no longer > working correctly and I haven't been > able to restore the system, even when rolling back to July 23 versions > (nvidia-glx=275.09.07-5 and xserver-xorg-core=1.10.2.902-1)
In that case, probably some other change introduced in the Aug 17 update caused these problems. /var/log/dpkg.log*, /var/log/term.log*, /var/log/aptitude* should contain your upgrade history. > OpenGL problems seen in 3 different packages: There is nothing we can do about these problems in the closed source driver. Please report them directly to NVIDIA, following their bug reporting instructions: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46678 > [ 672.814] [mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an > infinite loop. ... > The Xserver infinite loop problem was mitigating by adding to xorg.conf ... > Option "IgnoreABI" "True" can't be, this should be completely unrelated > but the Xserver became unusable in that it was impossible to scroll down > and select an item > from a list (for example a music list in totem). Commands like 'less' on a > gnome-terminal > scrolled endlessly even though resize shows the correct number of lines > and columns. > > I tried rolling back to the xserver and nvidia-glx versions on July 23, when > these worked fine, > but the problems persisted. Have you tried creating a completely new user account (with no accumulated cruft in his dot-files) and testing as this user? Turning off desktop effects has also helped some users. > I also tried installing the Nvidia driver directly from the NVIDIA package, > without dkms, but > the problem was the same. Another sign that this is not a packaging issue. > Bug 641344 describes rendering problems with xserver and nvidia for versions > xserver-xorg-core 2:1.11.0-1 > xserver-xorg-video-nvidia 285.03-2 Xserver 1.11.0 is problematic, a fix has been submitted to upstream and will be included in 1.11.1, but if you stayed with 1.10.x this should be not your issue. > Linux berkeley 2.6.39-2-686-pae #1 SMP Tue Jul 5 03:48:49 UTC 2011 i686 > GNU/Linux Have you tried a different kernel version/flavor? If you report this to NVIDIA, please post the URL to the corresponding forum thread to this Debian bug report, so that others may follow progress. Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
