nvidia driver problems

[crimsun at fungus.sh.nu]

> On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 10:09:10PM -0500, Kristian Hermansen wrote:
> > I am running a laptop that has a
> > widescreen 1280x800 resolution that has problems with both the nv and
> > nvidia drivers.  If I use the nv driver, whenever I try to switch to the
> > terminal windows with ctrl-alt-fx I get a grabled screen with a weird
> > refresh problem.  If I switch back to X with ctrl-alt-f7, everything
> > gets back to normal.

The "nv" driver in Warty is bungled in this regard. It is a known issue.
The "nv" driver in Hoary is fixed; see the changelog for
xorg (6.8.1-1ubuntu4):
+ Drag nVidia driver back from XFree86 (via X.Org HEAD) with more hardware
  support, fix for DPMS issues, PCI-Xpress support, DPMS on DVI, cursor
  fixes for NV11, proper console restoration, and Xv syncing on vblank
  (fd.o#1777).
The "nvidia" driver in Warty should work just fine, because it's 1.0-6111.
1.0-6629's driver is broken in the same way that "nv" from Warty is.

On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 04:36:22AM +0000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> It's probably an upstream nVidia bug, fixed in 6629 (which is available
> in Hoary, our development tree).

A little bird from Nvidia let me know it's fixed in a recent internal
build of the drivers. 1.0-6629 is broken still.

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Daniel T. Chen          crimsun at fungus.sh.nu
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