Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:04:39 +0000 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> To: Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt@burggraben.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nVidia driver update today: renders X11 unusable Message-ID: <48BE28F7.7030500@zedat.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <20080902151456.GA1593@elch.haidundneu23.net> References: <48BD0C5A.4060706@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <g9j493$35f$1@ger.gmane.org> <20080902151456.GA1593@elch.haidundneu23.net>
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Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote: > ## Volodymyr Kostyrko (c.kworr@gmail.com): > >>> Just upgraded my ports and installed the new xf86-video-nv driver. Well, >>> loggin out works now without crashing the Xorg server, but most fonts >>> now show up as balck bars - unreadable and ugly :-( >> Same for me, just some transparent pictures render transparency as >> black, good example is reader.google.com. This also isn't new to me, >> some pictures was shown like this in previous driver versions. I was >> just a bit unsure who was bad at it. > > Seems you've got an issue between X and firefox3; at least there's > a note in the firefox3 release notes which desribes similar effects: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411831 > Oh, but by the way, it's not an nvidia/nv issue; I've got the exactly > same issues with radeonhd... Luckily, I do not depend that much on > web browsers, let alone firefox3. > > Regards, > Christoph > The issue of X with firefox is well known and be aured I'm aware of that. This issue I complained about is with nearly every client I use under X - and that includes Firefox. This 'issue' renders a bunch of FreeBSD boxes around here unusable, only those with non-G80 derived graphics boards seem to be not infected by the problem, but every box with FreeBSD (mostly 7.0/7.1). By the way, the Linux boxes, especially the Gentoo-boxes, with also the open source nv-driver DO NOT SHOW this problem.
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