[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#582076: nvidia-glx: TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder causes segfault in X server on startup

Jaime Ochoa Malagón chptma at gmail.com
Tue May 18 13:15:33 UTC 2010


Andreas,

Sorry to bother you, I know you are working hard...

Just yesterday I need to fill a bug and read this page
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting

This is a fragment:

"Don't file bugs upstream

If you file a bug in Debian, don't send a copy to the upstream
software maintainers yourself, as it is possible that the bug exists
only in Debian. If necessary, the maintainer of the package will
forward the bug upstream."

I know nvidia is a "special case" just to give you this information in
order you could ask the users to open and link the bug upstream as a
"special case"...

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> wrote:
> tags 582076 upstream
> thanks
>
> Russell Stuart wrote:
>> Package: nvidia-glx
>> Version: 195.36.24-1
>> Severity: normal
>>
>>
>> This seems to be a bug introduced in 195.  Prior versions worked.  The issue is the
> What was the last working version?
>
>> Xserver gets a segfault on startup.  The /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
>
> Did you mistype the bug title? It mentions a different option ...
>
> I have a similar setup with a handmade xorg.conf (showing Device section
> only):
>
> Section "Device"
>        Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
>        Driver          "nvidia"
>        Option          "TwinView"
>        Option          "MetaModes"     "CRT-0: 1600x1200, DFP-0:
> 1680x1050; , DFP-0: 1680x1050"
>        Option          "TwinViewOrientation"   "CRT-0 LeftOf DFP-0"
> EndSection
>
> on a G84M [Quadro NVS 140M] GPU. Only other difference I see on a quick
> glance is kernel 2.6.32-3 vs. 2.6.32-5.
>
> You should probably check in the NVIDIA Linux forum for a similar report
> and make a new one if noone reported this problem so far, following the
> bug reporting instructions found there.
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14
>
> There is nothing the Debian NVIDIA packaging team can do about bugs in
> the closed-source driver.
>
> If you find/post something over there please post a link here, too, so
> progress can be followed.
>
>
> Andreas
>
>
>
>



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