Hi,

I was suggested to mail this problem to you. The problem involved is
explained in quoted portion below.

Vesa

-----Original Message-----
From: Branden Robinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: 26. elokuuta 2002 9:36
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: xserver-xfree86 malfunction with NVidia driver


On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 09:10:21AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> This is my first bug report for Debian so bear with me ;-)

Well, technically it's not a bug report at all, just mail to the package
maintainer... :)

> I'am having problems with your experimental xserver-xfree86 packages, 
> pre v1 worked good, but since that none have worked. I have tried v2 
> and v3 - and the symptoms are always same; graphics system failure. 
> Somehow the nv driver fails to work correctly. Otherwise X system 
> seems to work ok - it does get back to console (althought even console 
> is corrupted after that) if I press
> ctrl+alt+bs. As a workaround I have downgraded xserver to pre1v1 as it 
> ctrl+alt+works.
> (I'am pretty sure that the problem is nv driver, since without it X 
> starts ok but can't have any good resolutions, and same versions with 
> my home machine work perfectly).
>  
> The problem is 100% reproduceable.
>  
> I'am using Dell Latitude C810, Pentium III 1130MHz, 512MB RAM. It has 
> integrated NVidia GeForce2 Go video chip with 32MB RAM.
>  
> If you have questions or need some debug information I'll try to be 
> helpfull.

Sounds like the nv driver from CVS HEAD isn't for everyone.

xfree86 (4.2.0-0pre1v2) unstable; urgency=low
[...]
  * patch #000_stolen_from_HEAD_nv_driver:
    - updates to nv driver from XFree86 CVS courtesy of James Hirschorn

I suggest mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] and telling them about this.

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G. Branden Robinson                |       Yesterday upon the stair,
Debian GNU/Linux                   |       I met a man who wasn't there.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]                 |       He wasn't there again today,
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |       I think he's from the CIA.
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