Bug#604820: xserver-xorg: fragments of video memory displayed during login

[Bernhard Kuemel]

On 02/18/2012 10:28 PM, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 2011-01-05 15:27, Bernhard Kuemel wrote:
>>> Bernhard Kuemel <bernhard at bksys.at> (24/11/2010):
>>>> I guess so. I use NVIDIA Driver Version: 260.19.21 and used the
>>>> nvidia installer. An 8500 GT card.
>>
>> The mouse pointer is visible and movable on the fragmented display.
> 
> Does this problem still happen with the current versions of NVIDIA
> drivers, Xorg, kernel, gdm3/kdm/xdm/... ?

Yes:

nvidia 295.20
Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem
X.Org X Server 1.7.7

up to date squeeze. I may have trashed my system, though, by mixing
stable/testing when squeeze was testing. I switched from stable/testing
to squeeze only, before squeeze became stable. I plan on reinstalling
stable, but have yet find the motivation for it.

Hmm, my card is a GeForce 9500 GT. Did I have this bug on my previous
computer?? Or maybe the 8500 had a fan and I got myself a passively
cooled one.

Thanks, Bernhard