Bug 14039

Summary:	nVidia proprietary drivers cause black windows with compositing
Product:	Drivers	Reporter:	Marcus Harrison (marcus)
Component:	Video(DRI - non Intel)	Assignee:	Dave Airlie (airlied)
Status:	CLOSED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	airlied, rjw
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.30.5	Subsystem:
Regression:	Yes	Bisected commit-id:

Description Marcus Harrison 2009-08-22 11:38:51 UTC

In previous versions of the Linux kernel (2.6.27 and up), the nvidia drivers worked well and no problems occurred. However, since moving onto any version of the 2.6.30 kernel, new windows will open as black boxes when a composition manager is enabled. This bug appeared once before in the early nVidia drivers, and occurred then when the drivers ran out of video memory.

Will this be due to changes in the kernel that the nVidia drivers require modification to work under?

Comment 1 Dave Airlie 2009-08-22 11:51:10 UTC

not really anything we can do, try latest stable kernel otherwise contact the driver vendor.

Comment 2 Marcus Harrison 2009-08-22 13:15:21 UTC

OK, thanks for the quick reply. I'll forward the bug to nVidia.