On 01/20/2012 02:17 AM, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
Op donderdag 19 januari 2012 22:19:12 schreef TJ:
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oic, so you think it's something that's fixed in nvidia-current, but
nvidia- legacy still has this problem?
Yes. I'm far from being an expert, but it appeared to me that there is a
problem with the nvidia 173.14.30 driver Mageia 1 uses for FX cards that
isn't in the nvidia-current (225?) driver. I don't know if it exists in
the 96xx driver, too.
I apologize. I should have looked up the version numbers before my
original post.
TJ
to me, it sounds like behavior change that was there before, but gotten
changed likely for efficiency reasons in nvidia, but after KDE started showing
quite some issues, it gotten removed... these are all upstream bugs, and it
could be beneficial if you can submit a bugreport to the upstream about it
(nvidia).
however, i would hope KDE would have fixed their assumption on it, so, maybe
you could test in the cauldron if possible?
i don't think we ourselves can do much about this...
The site http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_archive.html
contains some interesting information.
For one thing, I see that a 173.14.31 driver was released August 17. The
release highlights say, "Fixed a bug that caused freezes and crashes
when resizing windows in KDE 4 with desktop effects enabled using X.Org
X server version 1.10 or later." An uninformed person like me could
stretch that description to be possibly related to the problem I see
with the 173 driver, so perhaps the problem has already been solved.
The site also says that both of my cards are supported by this driver,
so that clears up one nagging question that I had, namely if the driver
could be tested without switching back and forth between cards. I only
have two computers, and disrupting things too much for testing the one
my brother uses when his problem has been eliminated by other means
would only serve to annoy my brother.
The computer I use also uses the 6200OC card, the same model in fact
that now resides within my brother's computer. So, I suppose I could, in
what there is of my spare time, create another Mageia install (I almost
think it would be easier for me to use Mageia 1), download the updated
driver from nvidia, figure out how to install it (I always used the
proprietary drivers available from the distro before), and try a test.
Or maybe it would be better if I filed a bug report/package request for
the update and participate in testing along with whoever else might wish
to do so.
TJ
