Bug 322017

Summary:	x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-256.29 ebuild request
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Richard <shiningarcanine>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	gef.kornflakes
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=2260199
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Description Richard 2010-05-29 18:33:15 UTC

Newer drivers are available from Nvidia.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:




I have been having issues with lag on the latest stable 195.36.24 drivers, which I have been trying to fix for a while. It happens when I login to KDE and when it happens, my entire system becomes unusable until KDE detects an issue and disables compositing.

I probably should file a bug report regarding this (rather than embedding it in an ebuild request), but this issue is random and impossible to reliably reproduce.

This seems to be an issue specific to the x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-195.36.24 and possibly also the x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-195.36.16 on my system, but I like running x11-base/xorg-server-1.8.1 on my laptop because it implements udev support, so I have just tried to ignore the issue when doing work I need to do, as it only manifests itself occasionally at boot. At the same time, I have been troubleshooting to try to figure out the cause of the issue and today I stumbled across a report from a Debian user who appears to experience a similar problem:

http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?p=130907#post130907

It relates the issue I have been having to an issue that Phoronix identified in the Nvidia 256.25 drivers. Today, Nvidia released the 256.29 drivers and claim that they resolve the issue:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=2260199

The random nature of the issue I have encountered, the Debian user's report regarding various nvidia driver versions and the fact that the bug that the 256.29 drivers fix has to do with power management suggests to me that the issue that these drivers fix and the issue I have encountered are the same bug.

A simple version bump for the x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ebuild will not work and I do not know enough about writing ebuilds to write my own at this time, so I am filing this request.

Comment 1 Gef 2010-05-30 13:29:34 UTC

Hi Richard,

You bug looks like a DUPLICATE of #321061, which btw has ebuilds you can try

Comment 2 Richard 2010-05-30 13:32:17 UTC

You are right. I am marking this as a duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 321061 ***