Public bug reported: The upgrade in nvidia-current to 256.35-0ubuntu1 has introduced video tearing with hardware that has always performed fine thru the 195.36.24 drivers ( both in maverick and in lucid. While the hardware is approaching becoming obsolete, I'm sure many still use agp and maverick could remain an option.
Card here is G70 [GeForce 7800 GS] As a test, with a fully updated install (07/04), reverted back to nvidia-current 195.36.24-0ubuntu2 and playback returned to being perfect. Obviously I (or others) can't keep this nvidia package for long in Maverick so am requesting that Maverick at release offer an alternate nvidia driver(s) if possible and if so have it or 1 choice be the 195.XX driver. While clearly the 256 driver offers improvements, most of them are only realized on newer pci-e hardware, for agp there's nothing gained and most certainly something to lose. Note that the 7000 series is not too fond of the 173 drivers, so that's not an option ( not that they are usable atm anyway ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: nvidia-current 195.36.24-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-6.9-generic 2.6.35-rc3 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-6-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia .proc.driver.nvidia.agp.card: Fast Writes: Supported SBA: Supported AGP Rates: 8x 4x Registers: 0xff000e1b:0x1f004302 .proc.driver.nvidia.agp.host.bridge: Host Bridge: PCI device 8086:2578 Fast Writes: Supported SBA: Supported AGP Rates: 8x 4x Registers: 0x1f004a1b:0x00000b02 .proc.driver.nvidia.agp.status: Status: Enabled Driver: AGPGART AGP Rate: 8x Fast Writes: Disabled SBA: Enabled .proc.driver.nvidia.version: NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 195.36.24 Thu Apr 22 09:18:20 PDT 2010 GCC version: gcc version 4.4.4 (Ubuntu 4.4.4-6ubuntu1) Architecture: i386 Date: Sun Jul 4 23:36:11 2010 DkmsStatus: nvidia-current, 195.36.24, 2.6.35-6-generic, i686: installed InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100624) MachineType: alienware alienware ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-6-generic root=UUID=c041ff99-1825-4e9b-9c44-22e30de4618b ro quiet splash ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers dmi.bios.date: 01/29/2004 dmi.bios.vendor: Intel Corp. dmi.bios.version: BZ87510A.86A.0091.P21.0401291113 dmi.board.name: D875PBZ dmi.board.vendor: Intel Corporation dmi.board.version: AAC26680-205 dmi.chassis.type: 2 dmi.chassis.vendor: alienware dmi.chassis.version: alienware dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIntelCorp.:bvrBZ87510A.86A.0091.P21.0401291113:bd01/29/2004:svnalienware:pnalienware:pvr:rvnIntelCorporation:rnD875PBZ:rvrAAC26680-205:cvnalienware:ct2:cvralienware: dmi.product.name: alienware dmi.sys.vendor: alienware glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory system: distro: Ubuntu codename: maverick architecture: i686 kernel: 2.6.35-6-generic ** Affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 maverick -- Maverick; latest nvidia-current causes video tearing in agp cards https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/601767 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs