Re: Bug reports On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:42:49 +0200, Henrik Carlqvist wrote:
> Joerg <jstadermann@see_signature.net> wrote:
>> Well, I've been posting here, but nobody seems to experience the same
>> problem ( was "KDE crash with nvidia 9755 on current").
>>
>> I think it's not only a kde issue, all apps linked against libGL and
>> libGLcore seem to be affected.
>
> Nvidia 9755 is not part of Slackware and there is no way that Slackware
> or even X.org can fix that problem. When you install nVidia 9755 you
> replace the opensource nv driver from X.org with a closed source driver
> from nvidia. You also replace the opensource OpenGL libraries with
> closed source libraries from nVidia. To debug and fix a program you need
> the source, the only people that have the source for this problem is
> nVidia. You should report the problem to nVidia, not to Slackware or
> X.org.
>
> Still, posting about the problem in this group might be a good idea if
> someone else would happen to know a workaround. However, the only people
> that are able to fix bugs related to the driver or libraries are nVidia.
>
> regards Henrik
I answered this. The problem is X. Try downgrading to x 7.1. 7.2 does not
work well. To try two things: 1, use the native nv drivers, 2, try the
vesafb drivers.
This is not a Slackware problem.
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Peter |