[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#538445: tvbrowser and nvidia-glx do not play together

[Hans-J. Ullrich]

Package: nvidia-glx
Severity: normal



-- Package-specific info:
uname -r:
Linux protheus2 2.6.30-1-amd64 #1 SMP Sat Jul 18 12:55:06 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux


/proc/version:
Linux version 2.6.30-1-amd64 (Debian 2.6.30-3) (waldi at debian.org) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Debian 4.3.3-14) ) #1 SMP Sat Jul 18 12:55:06 UTC 2009


/proc/driver/nvidia/version:


02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 8600M GS] (rev a1)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: x86_64

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Dear maintainers, 

please apologize, if my report is not exactly enough, but I cannot confirm,
which is the main package for this behaviour.

Report:

When I start the application tvbrowser (which is a java based application),
the screen crashes and KDE hangs up (flickering monitor, freeze and so on).
This behaviour happens ONLY with the combination of nvidia-module/nvidia-glx
version 185.18xxx + tvbrowser. NO other application causes this trouble.

The combination of nvdiia-glx in version 180.xxx + tvbrowser works
perfectly.

This is really weired, as the application tvbrowser is not very special. 

I examined the logfiles, but there was no unusual to find. Strange is too,
that this crash is not always, just randomly.

It has nothing to do with plasma (the crash appeared in XFCE, too).

Sorry, I cannot give more information, but maybe someone else discoverd the
sane crash and maybe he or she found out more.

So, again, please apologize I cannot confirmm to which package (X11, nvidia-*
or tvbrowser) I should send it.


Thanks for your help.


Best regards

Hans-J. Ullrich