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Re: [Cooker] Call for testing: proprietary NVIDIA and AMD driver backport candidates

Javier Martínez Villacampa

2008-06-05

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> Javier Martínez Villacampa wrote:
> >> Hi all!
> >>
> >> Anyone with a 2008.1 or 2008.0 system using proprietary nvidia-current
> >> or fglrx drivers, please try these new backport candidates:
> >>
> >> http://kenobi.mandriva.com/~anssi/testing/fglrx/
> >> http://kenobi.mandriva.com/~anssi/testing/nvidia/
> >>
> >> Please report success or failure. Mention your distribution version and
> >> installation architecture in your report.
> >
> > 2.6.24.5-laptop-1mnb #1 32bits
> >
> > Card:ATI Radeon 9500 to Radeon X1050: ATI Technologies Inc|RV350
> > [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] [DISPLAY_VGA]
> >
> > Performance is as good as before.
> >
> > And lock ups after loginout in a graphical session seems to have
> > dissappeared (but only if bootsplash is disabled:
> > https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=33095 ).
>
> I think that was the case in previous driver as well, i.e. lockups do
> not appear if bootsplash is disabled.


For some people yes, but i was having two kind of lock ups.
One difference was in how the screen state was left.
Sometimes was completely black.
Others with a downline character "_" at top left of the screen.

The first one is which has gone completely.
The second still remains if bootsplash is active.

Javier
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