Bug#697874: nvidia-kernel-3.2.0-4-686-pae: skype and googleearth crash X with Nvidia GeForce Go 6600

[Andreas Beckmann]

Control: reassign -1 nvidia-glx 304.64-3
Control: tag -1 moreinfo

On 2013-01-10 19:35, Harald wrote:
> I'm running a quite old laptop with a Nvidia Geforce Go 6600 card. Up to 

> All works fine, except for some programs crash X completly. In my case 

> I just unintentionally found an open source program that crashes X
> under the circumstances discribed above. It's ghostview. I type "gv"

:-)

There are probably ways to run X in gdb to get a backtrace ...

> 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation NV43 [GeForce Go 6600] [10de:0148] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

Have you tried the legacy drivers? Both 173xx and 96xx should support
that ancient card, too.


Andreas