On 21/05/2011 12:48, mr.goose wrote: > @eagles051387 > I'm sorry but I beg to differ. I think we CAN pin the blame fairly and > squarely on nVidia. This is a copy of the latest response I have received > from nVidia's "customer care", following yet another a fairly strongly worded > email from me with regard to nVidia's total lack of activity in this regard:- > > > "Hello, > > I escalated this problem to the Linux Engineering Manager. An Engineer > has been assigned to work on this at high priority. We are targeting the > fix for the upcoming 275.xx driver which is currently planned to ship in > early June 2011." > > > Added to which, it is NOT just Konsole that is affected. Granted it is the > app most likely to crash the entire system. But resizing gnome-terminal will > also crash the system - though I accept you need to try harder in order to do > so. Then there is the matter of the weird desktop artefacts. Sure, there are > workarounds for the crashing - though I've yet to find a workaround for the > artefacts. > > Fact is that nVidia claims to support Linux. Many users, including > myself, bought nVidia products on the basis of nVidia's advertised > claim. Remember, nVidia's software products are also closed source, > which means its users are lumbered with whatever it provides. Added to > which, nVidia is NOT just a handful of well-meaning open-source type > guys, working for free in their bedrooms. nVidia is a massive, profit- > making, NASDAQ 100 corporation, with more than 6000 employees and an > estimated enterprise value of $9.6 billion. In other words, nVidia has > PLENTY of resources at its disposal. > > Therefore, the onus is clearly on nVidia to honour its advertised claims > and fix the problem. It is not for its users to work around it. > > Best wishes, G > Firstly Im glad you contacted them and they escalated this issue, but in digging through the nvidia site i did find some developer resources that allows one to develop stuff for their cards such as drivers etc. I agree though it depends on the application that might trigger this, but in all honesty i find it funny how only certain apps are triggering a full system lock up. for me it would be maximizing kvirc.
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