nvidia-driver 195.22 use horribly broken on amd64 between r206173 and

[Vrachnis Ilias-Dimitrios]

On 05/26/2010 12:00 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>     Just reporting the fact that nvidia-driver 195.22 is horribly
> broken between r206173 and r208486 (my machine consistency livelocks
> at X11 startup); the latest driver is still broken as well with the
> same symptoms. I realize that's a huge revision difference, and I'll
> definitely try and track down the root cause via a binary search, but
> I wanted to make sure that other folks knew of the issue and don't
> upgrade and their systems break horribly as well.
>     I suspect that the locking changes are causing the issue, but I
> don't have any hard data to backup my claim at this time.
> Thanks,
> -Garrett

same goes for nvidia-driver-96. nv seems unaffected though. (thankfully
i rarely need X on that machine)