Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 121574] Re: Open source nv X crashes whenever applications use gl

2010-02-23 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 07:48:22PM -, oz wrote: > What'll happen to people still having the old broken nv driver > installed? Will they be switched automatically to nouveau and have their > X properly reconfigured with the next update? Yes ___ Maili

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 121574] Re: Open source nv X crashes whenever applications use gl

2010-02-23 Thread oz
What'll happen to people still having the old broken nv driver installed? Will they be switched automatically to nouveau and have their X properly reconfigured with the next update? -- Open source nv X crashes whenever applications use gl https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/121574 You received this b

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 121574] Re: Open source nv X crashes whenever applications use gl

2010-02-23 Thread Bryan Donlan
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:20 PM, oz wrote: > So you're saying you did not fix a bug in one of the mayor GPU drivers > for 2 and a half years, and now give up on it, because there is another, > different driver available for another release, while the bug still > exists? Fsck it. That's really poor

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 121574] Re: Open source nv X crashes whenever applications use gl

2010-02-23 Thread oz
So you're saying you did not fix a bug in one of the mayor GPU drivers for 2 and a half years, and now give up on it, because there is another, different driver available for another release, while the bug still exists? Fsck it. That's really poor. However, there's Debian running on the box with cl

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 121574] Re: Open source nv X crashes whenever applications use gl

2010-02-22 Thread Bryce Harrington
Thank you for reporting this issue about xserver-xorg-video-nv. Starting with Lucid, Ubuntu is transitioning to using the -nouveau video driver by default instead of -nv. The reason for this change is because upstream development for the -nv driver has been quite slow. We are quite pleased with t