Bug 154656

Summary:	x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.9629 garbles display
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Brandon Enright <bmenrigh>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	X11 External Driver Maintainers <x11-drivers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.1
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Brandon Enright 2006-11-10 03:24:24 UTC

I've gotten nvidia driver 1.0.9629 to load just fine but it has a lot of horizontal line noise that dances around the screen.  This noise isn't minor, it completely dominates the screen and makes text almost impossible to read -- much like what running a CRT at too high a frequency does.

I have a 6800GT card using DVI-D output.

x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776
or earlier versions have always worked just fine.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-11-10 03:39:52 UTC

So report it to nVidia, we can't fix it.

Comment 2 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-07-16 17:18:52 UTC

This is related to DVI configuration changes that nVidia made from the 8xxx series to the 9xxx series of the drivers. Please read the nVidia README with the drivers and update your configuration accordingly.

http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/100.14.11/README/index.html