On Aug 08, Chris Lawrence wrote: > Thanks, Branden, for including the nv driver backport in the latest > 4.2.0 prerelease (which added support for the GeForce2 Go). I tried > switching from the *gag* non-free binary driver to nv, and it mostly > worked, with the following caveats:
I finally got around to upgrading my laptop this morning to 4.2.0-pre1v4 (4.2.1 hasn't made it to the XSF mirror I pull my mirror from). > - Segfault when the glx driver was loaded. There were two unresolved > _gl symbols in the X server backtrace; I can get the trace if that > will help some. (Rebooting without the nvidia binary module loaded > did not help any.) Fixed by purging nvidia-glx. (Thanks for the hint, Michael.) Might be worth a note in the changelog or driver status document. > - The mouse cursor didn't render right; it was small, red, and in two > more-or-less identical pieces about 30 pixels apart separated by a > bit of pixel garbage. (Probably using a software cursor would have > fixed this.) Fixed now (since -pre1v3). Definitely cool to be back running a 100% free X again :-) Great work by Branden and the upstream X team, as always. Chris -- Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/