Hi,

stupid question: Is volkerdi@slackware.com the right address for
reporting issues?

Joerg
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On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 10:17:16 +0200, Joerg <jstadermann@see_signature.net> wrote:

>stupid question: Is volkerdi@slackware.com the right address for
>reporting issues?

Sure, get your name into the Changelog by being the first to report
an issue -- reporting to aols as well may help, especially if others
have seen the same issue they may know a work-around.

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Joerg wrote :

> stupid question: Is volkerdi@slackware.com the right address for
> reporting issues?

That address is for bug reports, if its a security issue then the
address can be found here:
<URL: http://www.slackware.com/contact/>
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Grant wrote:

> On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 10:17:16 +0200, Joerg
> <jstadermann@see_signature.net> wrote:
>
>>stupid question: Is volkerdi@slackware.com the right address for
>>reporting issues?
>
> Sure, get your name into the Changelog by being the first to
> report an issue -- reporting to aols as well may help,
> especially if others have seen the same issue they may know a
> work-around.
>
> Grant.

Well, I've been posting here, but nobody seems to experience the
same problem ( was "KDE crash with nvidia 9755 on current").

I think it's not only a kde issue, all apps linked against libGL
and libGLcore seem to be affected.

THX
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Joerg <jstadermann@see_signature.net> wrote:
> Well, I've been posting here, but nobody seems to experience the
> same problem ( was "KDE crash with nvidia 9755 on current").
>
> I think it's not only a kde issue, all apps linked against libGL
> and libGLcore seem to be affected.

Nvidia 9755 is not part of Slackware and there is no way that Slackware or
even X.org can fix that problem. When you install nVidia 9755 you replace
the opensource nv driver from X.org with a closed source driver from
nvidia. You also replace the opensource OpenGL libraries with closed
source libraries from nVidia. To debug and fix a program you need the
source, the only people that have the source for this problem is nVidia.
You should report the problem to nVidia, not to Slackware or X.org.

Still, posting about the problem in this group might be a good idea if
someone else would happen to know a workaround. However, the only people
that are able to fix bugs related to the driver or libraries are nVidia.

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On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:42:49 +0200, Henrik Carlqvist wrote:

> Joerg <jstadermann@see_signature.net> wrote:
>> Well, I've been posting here, but nobody seems to experience the same
>> problem ( was "KDE crash with nvidia 9755 on current").
>>
>> I think it's not only a kde issue, all apps linked against libGL and
>> libGLcore seem to be affected.
>
> Nvidia 9755 is not part of Slackware and there is no way that Slackware
> or even X.org can fix that problem. When you install nVidia 9755 you
> replace the opensource nv driver from X.org with a closed source driver
> from nvidia. You also replace the opensource OpenGL libraries with
> closed source libraries from nVidia. To debug and fix a program you need
> the source, the only people that have the source for this problem is
> nVidia. You should report the problem to nVidia, not to Slackware or
> X.org.
>
> Still, posting about the problem in this group might be a good idea if
> someone else would happen to know a workaround. However, the only people
> that are able to fix bugs related to the driver or libraries are nVidia.
>
> regards Henrik

I answered this. The problem is X. Try downgrading to x 7.1. 7.2 does not
work well. To try two things: 1, use the native nv drivers, 2, try the
vesafb drivers.

This is not a Slackware problem.

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Henrik Carlqvist wrote:

> Joerg <jstadermann@see_signature.net> wrote:
>> Well, I've been posting here, but nobody seems to experience
>> the same problem ( was "KDE crash with nvidia 9755 on
>> current").
>>
>> I think it's not only a kde issue, all apps linked against
>> libGL and libGLcore seem to be affected.
>
> Nvidia 9755 is not part of Slackware and there is no way that
> Slackware or even X.org can fix that problem. When you install
> nVidia 9755 you replace the opensource nv driver from X.org with
> a closed source driver from nvidia. You also replace the
> opensource OpenGL libraries with closed source libraries from
> nVidia. To debug and fix a program you need the source, the only
> people that have the source for this problem is nVidia. You
> should report the problem to nVidia, not to Slackware or X.org.
>
> Still, posting about the problem in this group might be a good
> idea if someone else would happen to know a workaround. However,
> the only people that are able to fix bugs related to the driver
> or libraries are nVidia.
>
> regards Henrik

I'm aware that nvidia properity drivers are not part of slackware.
The point is that I'm trying to find out, what's causing the
trouble with this driver in current, since it worked well for me
in 11.0. I guess it is what Peter was pointing out, that Xorg in
current is causing the problems. In that case, it may be a good
idea to a) file a bug report with nvidia, b) point out to Pat
that there are issues with X and nvidia binarries in current.
Nobody is expecting him to fix nvidia drivers or Xorg stuff, but
probably reports about issues will help him to decide which
version of a particular application to include in slackware.

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On 2007-04-06, Joerg <jstadermann@see_signature.net> wrote:
> I think it's not only a kde issue, all apps linked against libGL
> and libGLcore seem to be affected.

Overheard in ##slackware today on irc.freenode.net...

16:13 < alienBOB> noizze, do you use a closedsource Nvidia or Ati
display driver? If so, did you re-install
that one after the x11 package uprgade? That upgrade
overwrites one of the files of those
drivers... the libGL

Might very well be your problem.

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On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:09:13 +0200, Joerg <jstadermann@see_signature.net> wrote:

>Grant wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 10:17:16 +0200, Joerg
>> <jstadermann@see_signature.net> wrote:
>>
>>>stupid question: Is volkerdi@slackware.com the right address for
>>>reporting issues?
>>
>> Sure, get your name into the Changelog by being the first to
>> report an issue -- reporting to aols as well may help,
>> especially if others have seen the same issue they may know a
>> work-around.
>>
>> Grant.
>
>Well, I've been posting here, but nobody seems to experience the
>same problem ( was "KDE crash with nvidia 9755 on current").

from cizu jones 2007-03-20:
>Problem solved!
>
>Solution: sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9755-pkg1.run --x-module-path=/usr/lib/xorg/modules

work for you??

or Changelog 2007-04-03 KDE recompiled?
>
>I think it's not only a kde issue, all apps linked against libGL
>and libGLcore seem to be affected.

KDE in slack-current works here with the fix from cizu jones.

Grant.
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