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Re: nv driver and screen corruption



On Thursday 07 October 2010 14:47:34 Hauke Fath wrote:
> At 13:08 Uhr +0100 07.10.2010, Sad Clouds wrote:
> >Hi, I'm using NetBSD 5.1_RC3, Xorg is using nv driver with NVIDIA GeForce4
> >MX 440 graphics card.
> >
> >For quite some time now I have been seeing screen corruption, this usually
> >happens when Firefox is running. I'm not sure if Firefox causes it, or
> >buggy nv driver.
> 
> Does the workaround in
> <http://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=43223> help?
> 
>       hauke

No it doesn't. I've tried setting software cursor is xorg.conf, but screen 
corruption still happens. I'm beginning to think it's either nv driver, or 
faulty graphics card.

So if someone else with the same graphics card has seen this problem, then 
it's most likely to be nv driver.


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