Package: nvidia-glx Version: 1.0.7676-1 Severity: important
Ever since I upgraded to Xorg X server (sometime in the early summer), I have been unable to use nvidia-glx because it makes X server die from SIGSEGV very often. Xorg's nv module works, but does not give me OpenGL which is desperately desired. (Try interactively rotating half-gigabyte datasets without hw accel...) I managed to finally pin down the problem to three sources: ttf-bitstream-vera, ttf-bitstream-dejavu and tv-fonts. Any one of these fonts, when used with iso10646-1 encoding causes X to sigsegv. I removed these fonts, and I haven't seen a single sigsegv since. The problem is, all the other iso10646-1 monospace fonts - except the bitstreams - are unreadable at sizes (ptSz) below 160 or so. Thus I have a choice: able to read reasonably sized text or able to visualise the datasets, but not both. The bad thing is I need to do both. Going to iso8859-15 is not viable since many programs give crappy output when continually switching back and forth between 8859-15 and 10646-1; the rest of our machines use unicode and there is frequent data transfers between them. I filed this against the version in experimental since it seemed one of the bugs mentioned on NVidia's forums could have been the cause of my segfaults and it was fixed in 1.0-7676, but my segfaults persist. It's definitely present in the unstable and testing versions as well. -- Package-specific info: uname -r: Linux noether 2.6.10+juhaj+v1.0 #1 Thu Feb 10 12:23:26 EET 2005 i686 GNU/Linux /proc/version: Linux version 2.6.10+juhaj+v1.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-8)) #1 Thu Feb 10 12:23:26 EET 2005 /proc/driver/nvidia/version: 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17GL [Quadro4 200/400 NVS] (rev a3) -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.10+juhaj+v1.0 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages nvidia-glx depends on: ii libc6 2.3.5-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libx11-6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li ii libxext6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii nvidia-kernel-2. 1.0.7676-1+10.00.Custom NVIDIA binary kernel module for Li ii xlibs 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Window System client libraries m ii xserver-common 6.8.99.901.dfsg.1-2 files and utilities common to all nvidia-glx recommends no packages. -- debconf information: nvidia-glx/tlsyes: true * nvidia-glx/tlsno: false -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
