The current 100.14.11 nvidia drivers have two major issues. 1. Random freeze on the dual core systems (can be eliminated by booting your kernel with idle=poll) 2. Infamous "Black window bug" which has been around through at least 2-3 driver versions. According to the posts I saw on nvidia forums, its not "high enough priority" This can also be eliminated (by 1. Setting your rendering platform to AIGLX (serious performance lost). I have also come across the bug, when beryl will not shut down freezing my laptop during powerdowns with that setting. And 2, by setting rendering path to "use copy". Which came with moderate performance lost, and did not eliminate bug by 100%. In this setting some of your windows will go black from time to time, but maximizing a window, then resizing it, forces a redraw. It's not ideal, but at least I can get my window back and able to shutdown) Hope it helps -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Matthew Saltzman Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 12:21 PM To: For users of Fedora Subject: Re: speaking of nvidia binary drivers and beryl On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 19:08 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > On 9/9/07, Matthew Saltzman <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 13:26 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > > > On 9/9/07, Matthew Saltzman <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 10:26 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > > > > > The compositing "black window bug" will be fixed in the next driver release. > > > > > > > > Will the inability to dim the display on Quadro NVS 14)M be fixed in the next release? > > > > > > > > Pretty please? > > > > > > Depends on the notebook. In some cases its not a driver bug. > > > > Lenovo T61. If it's not the driver (although apparently the 100.14.09 > > driver version worked), how would we T61 users pursue the issue? > > Report it to Lenovo. That'll teach me to ask questions by implication... Is this definitely a T61 issue, or is it a driver issue? Note that display brightness is settable in WinXP and using the vesa driver in X. (The nv driver in X is currently borked, but I had it working for a few minutes today and brightness is settable there too.) Thanks. > > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
