i own benq laptop with nvidia 6100 card and i've got following issues with new nvidia drivers: 1. when my screen goes blank (after some time of inactivity) and then i press some key to get it back, the screen is very messy. it looks like the refresh rate is not properly restored. when i switch to terminal (ctrl+alt+f1) and then switch back to xorg, screen is set corectly 2. the screen stays messy in terminal. after first blanking of screen, it never backs to normal display 3. sometimes i don't see terminal after switching to it. i just have black screen and nothing more 4. i use tv-out in my laptop (with s-video port) and signal is very pure with those drivers. i use cable, which is about 15 meters long, but it works just fine with older drivers (from 100 serie) and it's almost impossible to use tv with the new ones my emerge --info: Portage 2.1.4 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.2.2, glibc-2.7-r1, 2.6.23.1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.23.1 i686 Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3200+ Timestamp of tree: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:16:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.3 dev-lang/python: 2.5.1-r5 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.24 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -mfpmath=sse -DNDEBUG -DG_DISABLE_ASSERT -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -mfpmath=sse -DNDEBUG -DG_DISABLE_ASSERT" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs cvs digest distcc distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms spinner strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.zie.pg.gda.pl/ http://gentoo.prz.rzeszow.pl http://src.gentoo.pl/distfiles" LANG="en_US" LINGUAS="pl" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/home/portage/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local" SYNC="rsync://gentoo.prz.rzeszow.pl/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac accessibility acpi aiglx alsa amarok amr apache2 bash-completion bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cairo canvas cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus divx divx4linux dlloader dri dvd dvdr dvdread encode exscalibar extraicons extramodules fbcon ffmpeg fla flac gd gif gimp glitz glut gmedia gpgme gpm gtk gtk2 hal iconv imlib2 isdnlog javascript jikes jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas lcms ldap live mad madwifi mailwrapper memlimit midi mmx mmxext moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mp3 mudflap musepack musicbrainz mysql ncurses nls nocardbus nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pda perl pmu png ppds pppd python qt3support rdesktop readline real realmedia reflection samba sasl sdl serial session spl sql sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales vcd videos vidix vim vim-with-x vorbis win32codecs wmf wmp x264 x86 xcomposite xml xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="kodak" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="pl" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s&forumid=14 is the magic place... ;)
Binary drivers we have no control over. Use nvidia-bug-report.sh and submit a bug report to NVIDIA. You can also try to use the NVIDIA Linux Support Forums that jakub posted above.
while true, we cant go stabilizing newer drivers if they're shite ;) on two amd64 systems (one stable, on bleeding unstable): 100.14.23 -> OK 169.09 -> off screen (virtual desktops) refreshing is broken using UseCompositeWrapper in my case seems to fix things
