Any news on dual core bug you can share ? -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lonni J Friedman Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 12:49 PM To: For users of Fedora Subject: Re: speaking of nvidia binary drivers and beryl On 9/10/07, Katalichenka, Sergey <skatalichenka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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) If booting with idle=poll eliminates the instability, then this is a kernel or BIOS bug, and not a driver bug. > 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) This bug will be fixed in the next driver release (as I've stated both on this list and the forums already). -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
