Bug#644302: nvidia-graphics-drivers: Bag of hurt using 285.05.09-1 against XOrg 1.11.1-1

[Russ Allbery]

"Marc J. Driftmeyer" <mjd at reanimality.com> writes:

> I don't know if it's a timeout issue or what [I'm more well-versed in
> WindowServer of OS X and Openstep] but this latest fix from Nvidia is
> nothing but a bag of hurt.

> Several comments are building already on nvnews.net's Linux Forum.

That would indeed be the appropriate place to discuss it.  There's
literally nothing that we as NVIDIA package maintainers can do, since this
is a closed-source driver handed to us as a compiled binary from NVIDIA.
They're the only ones who can fix it; there really isn't anything we can
do from a packaging perspective.

That's not to say that your bug filing is a bad idea.  It's good to have
it recorded in the BTS so that other people know it's still a problem when
they see the same thing.  But unfortunately we're pretty much in a waiting
game for NVIDIA to figure out what the problem is and release updated
drivers.

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