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. -- 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. _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
