Re: Heads up: Buggy nautilus 2.(.1.x?) interaction with NVIDIA drivers 4191

[John McCutchan <ttb tentacle dhs org>]

Nvidia's 4191 drivers replaced XAA with a proprietary acceleration
architecture. This is most likely a nvidia bug. But maybe 
this has uncovered a bug in nautilus aswell.

John
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 09:33:51PM +0100, Joergen Scheibengruber wrote:
> Am Fre, 2002-12-13 um 17.04 schrieb Chris Chabot:
> > Hey guys, just a quick heads-up on some weird interaction between 
> > nautilus 2 and nvidia's new driver revision (4191).
> > 
> > When using nautilus to draw the desktop, moving around windows, or 
> > switching desktop is dog-slow (i'm talking seconds before a moved window 
> > is redrawn)
> > 
> > When killing nautilus, but leaving the desktop background, everything is 
> > working as it should be again. Donno if any of the developers are 
> > running nautilus 2.x.x and nvidia's binary drivers, if so, might be 
> > worth taking a look whats going on. So far the only often heard 
> > complaint about nvidia's new drivers is with interaction w/ nautilus 2.. 
> > so either nautilus is doing something buggy, or triggers a bug in nvidia 
> > drivers
> > 
> > i verified this behaviour running CVS XFree86 & nautilus 2.1.4, but i 
> > saw many reports from ppl running vanilla redhat 8.0 having the exact 
> > same behaviour.
> > 
> > 	-- Chris
> 
> I can verify this, too. I'm using nautilus 2.1.3 and XFree86 4.2.1.
> However in my case it's not dog-slow, but definitly to slow. Downgrading
> my NVidia drivers to 2960 (the version I used before) helped, now
> everything is just fine again. It seems to me that this is a NVidia
> issue (since it's worked fine with previous versions of the driver), so
> I'm cc:-ing this to linux-bugs nvidia com
> 
> J?rgen 
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