This seems be fixed in the latest nvidia-current release:
nvidia-graphics-drivers (304.43-0ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low
* debian/rules:
- Add support for X ABI 13.
* New upstream release (LP: #1037483):
- Added support for the following GPUs:
o GeForce GTX 660 Ti
o
The 304.43 release should resolve this, hopefully also includes the Xorg
crash on 3d (unity, gnome-shell
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Starting Firefox kills xserver
I tested with the 304.43 edgers package and the new drivers do fix the
crash with these applications, as well as with the Unity and other 3D
desktops.
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OK, with the new Xserver 1.12.99.905-0ubuntu2, nvidia-current 304.37
does load OK, at least for bumblebee. I was keen to try it out to see if
it would crash with the Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or
interrupt context that plagued it in Precise while playing opengl
games. Sadly, it
Yes, Rocko - It's in the nvidia driver. See Daniel's message #6.
Unless I misunderstand what he said: Nvidia built/released the 304.37
drivers to what they thought would be 1.13 compliant around the 13th,
but there was a change in the ABI on the 17th, that broke their
compatibility, before the
As Daniel mentioned, the problem is in OpenGL. If you are willing to
run without it, you can work around the problem for now by disabling the
glx module in /etc/X11/xorg.conf by adding the following lines:
Section Module
Disable glx
EndSection
This issue was caused because the video driver
** Summary changed:
- Starting Firefox kills xserver immediately
+ Starting Firefox kills xserver immediately when using 2D desktop
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Is the bug actually in the nvidia driver or in the xserver? X has now
applied the ABI bump (http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-
announce/2012-August/002059.html) with the patch that Aaron requested
pertaining to this crash, and xserver-xorg-core is now at
2:1.12.99.905-0ubuntu1 so it should have the
