Re: New 100.14.09 nvidia drivers

On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 11:57 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've packaged the very latest nvidia driver. The huge version jump
> somewhat bothers me, as it will be impossible to come back to any lower
> numbering once we start with these new 100.x versions... :-/
> 
> Regarding the package's content, only one important change : I've added
> a trigger on xorg-x11-server-Xorg's installation which re-enables the
> nvidia driver, which fixes the empty Files section issue reported
> recently.
> 
> http://ftp.es6.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/testing/7/
> 
> If everything seems to go fine (I haven't rebooted to that driver
> myself yet) and if no one objects to the version leap, I'll release
> these packages to the main section in a few days.
> 
> Matthias
> 

I tried it as well and had problems. It initially installed and worked
fine but after a while compiz started behaving badly. After trying to
restart compiz (after problem with window maximizing), X locked up
completely. This hadn't happened with the older drivers. I've switched
back.

Thanks,

tjb
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