On Wednesday 17 January 2007 20:02, Bernhard Auzinger wrote: > Am Mittwoch 17 Januar 2007 18:24 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin: > > if you want to spread FUD, and you are doing it right now, inform > > yourself. Ok? > > > > The fix was there in mere days after NVIDIA got the news. > > > > The firm who reported the 'problem' confused the NVIDIA problem with a > > much older Xorg problem. > > I thought the nvidia bug was known for about a year?
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nvidia.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1971 . . . In summary, the accurate history of this issue is as follows: NVIDIA was made aware of a problem with our 1.0-8774 driver that caused an X Server crash on July 2006 through a posting on nvnews.net. The problem was not identified as a security risk. We debugged and fixed the issue, and included it, along with many other bug fixes, in the Release 95 series. 1.0-9625 was released on September 21, 2006 as a beta driver on nZone.com http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_rel70betadriver.html. We were informed on Monday, October 16th, that the problem posed a security risk. NVIDIA is releasing an updated driver from our stable Release 85 series, 1.0-8776, on Thursday, October 19, 2006, which includes the bug fix. We encourage users of NVIDIA graphics driver version 1.0-8762 or 1.0-8774 to upgrade to 1.0-8776, available here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html . . . there is a lot more information on that page. It is worth reading it. -- [email protected] mailing list
