Bug 256586

Summary:	x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-96.43.10 version bump
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Reuben Martin <reuben.m>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Ricardo Mendoza (RETIRED) <ricmm>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	cardoe, chrschmitt, jer, krinpaus, tom
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=126954
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Text corruption demo

Description Reuben Martin 2009-01-28 05:16:57 UTC

Please add this driver asap. The 96.43.09 driver was required to get the xorg-1.5 working, and to compile against recent kernels. But it has a really nasty text corruption bug that is totally driving me crazy. (Text looks like it has been scribbled over top of with a sharpie.)

Also has some fixes for KDE 4.2, so you may want to get this out before the 4.2 ebuilds (going up as I write this) get unmasked.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Reuben Martin 2009-01-28 05:18:26 UTC

Created attachment 179921 [details]
Text corruption demo

Attachment shows the mess created by the text corruption bug.

Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-01-29 19:28:36 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Created an attachment (id=179921) [edit]
> Text corruption demo
> 
> Attachment shows the mess created by the text corruption bug.

Ah, so that's what I have been seeing. :)

Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-01-29 19:37:17 UTC

*** Bug 256601 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Ken R 2009-02-03 17:55:59 UTC

The 96.43.09 was released without a backport for the "text corruption" bug, as per NVIDIA's reps on the nvnews forums.

As we know, 96.43.10 not only corrects the text corruption bug (making the use of small fonts Impossible), but also fixes the issues noted in the release highlights at: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=126954

I have taken the 96.43.09 ebuild and copied it to 96.43.10 and installed with no negative issues, and, the text corruption bug is gone. 

If you would like a tester for the nvidia legacy drivers, I can offer my services, as I have a NV25 [GeForce4 Ti 4400] and run a recent kernel (2.6.27.14) and conservative configs.

Could 96.43.10 be issued soon?

Comment 5 Ricardo Mendoza (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-02-03 18:54:00 UTC

96.43.10 is now in the tree.

Comment 6 Christian Schmitt 2009-03-03 17:11:25 UTC

*** Bug 260487 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***