The currently stable version 180.29 of nvidia-drivers seems to damage certain notebook displays, see https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433 for more information. The problem seems to be independent from the distribution and probably also from the kernel version. For repair, you need to open the notebook housing, connect an additional display and you have to boot MS-DOS. This is why I put the severity very high. I think 180.29 should be masked, until a fix from nVidia becomes stable.
(Maintainer decides severity) Copy'n'pasted: Status update: NVidia released a test driver 180.48 to us that solves the problem. I tried it with both Fedora 10 (2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i686.PAE) and openSUSE 11.1 (which suffered also from the same nvidia driver version) and in both cases the display remains healthy. NVidia told me that they expect the driver version 180.48 to go public around April 15, 2009. Thanks, Rainer
outdated now... newer versions are in the tree.
