<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><p>I've posted this issue along with an nvidia-bug-report.log.gz that caught the problem to the NVIDIA thread:</p><p> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=167084<br></p><p><br></p><p>This worked correctly on my first install of Wheezy on 07/23 with the same linux kernel I'm currently using, 2.6.39-2-686-pae.</p><p><br></p><p>I'm working on installing from snapshot.debian.org all the packages providing shared libs to the OpenGL applications with this problem but haven't completed this.</p><p><br></p><p>thanks,</p><p>--jack</p><br><br><br>--- On <b>Sat, 9/24/11, Andreas Beckmann <i><debian@abeckmann.de></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Andreas Beckmann <debian@abeckmann.de><br>Subject: Bug#642497: nvidia-glx: incorrect rendering
followed by xserver infinite loop when using some OpenGL apps<br>To: 642497@bugs.debian.org, 642497-submitter@bugs.debian.org<br>Cc: control@bugs.debian.org<br>Date: Saturday, September 24, 2011, 3:24 AM<br><br><div class="plainMail">tag 642497 upstream moreinfo<br>thanks<br><br>On 2011-09-23 05:30, jack wrote:<br>> I had nvidia-glx and X running well on Wheezy installed July 23,2011 on a new PC with an NVIDIA 560 Ti card.<br>> After an apt-get upgrade on August 17, the OpenGL features are no longer working correctly and I haven't been<br>> able to restore the system, even when rolling back to July 23 versions (nvidia-glx=275.09.07-5 and xserver-xorg-core=1.10.2.902-1)<br><br>In that case, probably some other change introduced in the Aug 17 update<br>caused these problems. /var/log/dpkg.log*, /var/log/term.log*,<br>/var/log/aptitude* should contain your upgrade history.<br><br>> OpenGL problems seen in 3 different packages:<br><br>There is
nothing we can do about these problems in the closed source<br>driver. Please report them directly to NVIDIA, following their bug<br>reporting instructions:<br><a href="http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46678" target="_blank">http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46678</a><br><br><br>> [ 672.814] [mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop.<br>...<br>> The Xserver infinite loop problem was mitigating by adding to xorg.conf<br>...<br>> Option "IgnoreABI" "True"<br><br>can't be, this should be completely unrelated<br><br>> but the Xserver became unusable in that it was impossible to scroll down and select an item<br>> from a list (for example a music list in totem). Commands like 'less' on a gnome-terminal<br>> scrolled endlessly even though
resize shows the correct number of lines and columns. <br>> <br>> I tried rolling back to the xserver and nvidia-glx versions on July 23, when these worked fine,<br>> but the problems persisted.<br><br>Have you tried creating a completely new user account (with no<br>accumulated cruft in his dot-files) and testing as this user?<br><br>Turning off desktop effects has also helped some users.<br><br>> I also tried installing the Nvidia driver directly from the NVIDIA package, without dkms, but<br>> the problem was the same.<br><br>Another sign that this is not a packaging issue.<br><br>> Bug 641344 describes rendering problems with xserver and nvidia for versions<br>> xserver-xorg-core 2:1.11.0-1<br>> xserver-xorg-video-nvidia 285.03-2<br><br>Xserver 1.11.0 is problematic, a fix has been submitted to upstream and<br>will be included in 1.11.1, but if you stayed with 1.10.x this should be<br>not your
issue.<br><br>> Linux berkeley 2.6.39-2-686-pae #1 SMP Tue Jul 5 03:48:49 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux<br><br>Have you tried a different kernel version/flavor?<br><br>If you report this to NVIDIA, please post the URL to the corresponding<br>forum thread to this Debian bug report, so that others may follow progress.<br><br><br>Andreas<br><br><br><br>-- <br>To unsubscribe, send mail to <a ymailto="mailto:642497-unsubscribe@bugs.debian.org" href="/mc/compose?to=642497-unsubscribe@bugs.debian.org">642497-unsubscribe@bugs.debian.org</a>.<br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table>