Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 13:10:03 GMT From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/127111: xf86-video-nv-2.1.11 broken with a lot of nVidia G80-based graphics boards Message-ID: <200809051310.m85DA3De010695@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200809051320.m85DK19X073156@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 127111 >Category: ports >Synopsis: xf86-video-nv-2.1.11 broken with a lot of nVidia G80-based graphics boards >Confidential: no >Severity: critical >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Sep 05 13:20:01 UTC 2008 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: O. Hartmann >Release: FreeBSD 7.1-PRE/amd64 >Organization: FU Berlin >Environment: FreeBSD 7.1 on amd64 platform MSI 8600GTS graphics board with nVidia G8X chipset >Description: After upgrading Xorg video driver xf86-video-nv-2.1.11 X isn't usable in a reasonable way anymore. Whenever some ransparent areas, text areas or pics with some surroundings are shown, they are showed as black areas, black bars or simply black pixels. Text in webbrowsers (Firefox3/2), mailer (thunderbird) and several other clients is unreadable. This also happens on several other boxes with a very similar graphics card or even a NV8800GTS graphics board. >How-To-Repeat: Install xf86-video-nv-2.1.11 driver on a box with a nVidia G8X driven graphics board of newer generation. >Fix: Not know, but switching to previous driver will help. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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