[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#583312: Bug#583312: nvidia bug also with nouveau driver

[Russ Allbery]

Thomas Koch <thomas at koch.ro> writes:

> As noted in Message #71 to this bug, I believe to have observed the very
> same issue with the free nouveau driver. In conclusion I believe that
> the change in severity is not justified by your rationale.

> Therefor please also consider bug #583336 and decide, if the bug can
> still be reduced in severity.

The only purpose served by making this bug against the non-free NVIDIA
drivers RC is that Debian squeeze would just not ship with the non-free
drivers *at all*, since so far as I can tell there isn't much we can do in
the packages to solve this problem.  That the bug also happens with
nouveau indicates to me that the hardware just takes a while to initialize
and there may not be very much we can do about it.

In the meantime, I don't see any reason to block migration of the packages
to testing or release with squeeze for this bug.  It's very annoying, but
it doesn't render them unusable.  Of course if we can find a solution, we
will absolutely fix it as soon as possible, but giving it a higher
severity isn't going to make that process any faster and is just going to
make life harder for testing users who are also going to be experiencing
the same bug.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>