nvidia-driver-295.49 is highly unstable

Mark Felder feld at feld.me
Mon May 28 15:56:00 UTC 2012


On Sun, 27 May 2012 11:46:23 -0500, <yuri at rawbw.com> wrote:

> After the recent system upgrade that brought nvidia-driver-295.49 my  
> system began to malfunction.
> Xorg randomly freezes and gets to 100% CPU (in kde4), switching back  
> from the black terminal takes 30 seconds, some windows don't repaint  
> while windows effects are on, etc.
> Switching back to 295.05.09 from Feb 11, 2012 fixed the problem.
>
> 9400GT
>
> I can't believe this is only my problem. I think the version should be  
> rolled back until the problem is fixed.
>

Hmmm I think this is exactly my problem. My desktop at home is working  
fine, but it's a 4xx and my work machine is a 9xxx. I honestly thought it  
was a flash problem because it seems to happen most on pages that have  
flash content.


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