[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#586774: Bug#586774: nvidia-glx: Random X server crashes

[Russ Allbery]

"Marc F. Clemente" <marc at mclemente.net> writes:

> My Xserver crashes occasionally with 195.36.24-4.  It used to be stable,
> but I think it broke when I upgraded from 190.53-4 to 195.36.24-1.  The
> crashes appear random; often when the computer is idle.  The computer is
> still alive (ping, ssh, etc) but the console is locked up
> (ctrl-alt-backspace does not work).  Using dkms or m-a to build the
> kernel module makes no difference.  The opensource nv driver is stable.

> Let me know what I can do to help.

Unfortunately, probably "report a bug upstream" since there's usually not
much anyone in Debian can do about crashes in the closed-source driver.
However, one thing to try first is that upstream has released a new
version of the drivers that we've not had a chance to package yet.  If
you're comfortable doing a manual install from the upstream installer, it
may be that the new version has already fixed this crash.  (I certainly
understand if you'd rather wait until we get a chance to package it
normally to test.)

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