[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#465977: nvidia-kernel-legacy-96xx-source: driver works in principle, but sometimes (in games) graphiks are invisible

[Alexander Schmehl]

Package: nvidia-kernel-legacy-96xx-source
Version: 96.43.01-2
Severity: normal

Hi!

This bug is kind of difficult to explain, and I have no idea, how to
debugg it.  I hope it helps anyways.

The situation is as follows:
I have an nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX - nForce GPU] (rev a3)
graphics card (shipped with an Nforce2 mainboard) and builded the driver
using module-assistant.

It works quite well:  2D is not a problem at all, GL screensavers seem
to work, too.

However in most games using 3d I get to see only the background image.
E.g. when I start "ppracer", I get a blue screen, hear the music, but
neither the menu nor the snow flakes are shown.

That used to work, but I'm unsure which change made it stop.  I think
(nut haven't tried so yet), that it stopped working, when the
legacy-96xx driver was splitted, since the "normal" one didn't support
my graphics card any longer.

Any idea, what I could try to solve the problem / get to know what's
going wrong?


Yours sincerely,
  Alexander


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages nvidia-kernel-legacy-96xx-source depends on:
ii  debhelper                     6.0.5      helper programs for debian/rules
ii  dpatch                        2.0.29     patch maintenance system for Debia
ii  make                          3.81-3     The GNU version of the "make" util
ii  sed                           4.1.5-5    The GNU sed stream editor

Versions of packages nvidia-kernel-legacy-96xx-source recommends:
ii  devscripts                    2.10.13    Scripts to make the life of a Debi
ii  kernel-package                11.001-0.1 A utility for building Linux kerne
ii  nvidia-glx-legacy-96xx        96.43.01-2 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver (96xx le

-- no debconf information

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Yours sincerely,
  Alexander