Which NVIDIA driver do you use, Nouveau or the proprietary blob?
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View Poll Results: Which NVIDIA driver do you use, Nouveau or the porprietary blob?
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It must only be the beta drivers it was fixed in then -- was fixed as of at least 304.48 if not sooner.
I watched the bug reports, the changes to the GIT repository and the fix from an NVIDIA developer filter through a couple of months ago.
I suggest you download the latest NVIDIA driver (I think it's 304.51) as the blue people problem has been cured for a while.
As of the wee hours of this morning, my time, 304.43 was the latest driver, but I'll check again and see if anything new has been posted to their web site.
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That's extremely odd, I don't see the problem with 305.48 or 305.51 with hardware acceleration enabled.
I also know that NVIDIA have had a patch for this since January.
I wonder if it's only fixed for some cards?
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Seems to be Adobe's. They call VDPAU incorrectly or something -- there's discussion on some NVIDIA forums but it's a little technical for me. One of the discussions is here: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=177380
Binary Blob, but an older version as the newer 3xx series lost some functionality.
I found out the hard way that using the 3xx series drivers breaks the RandR extension (Alt+CTRL+[+/-] do not work any longer the driver only supports rotation... so I use the 270 series since the functionality is not missing in that driver and my card is old enough to negate any befits the newer drivers have to offer. (I am running on a 9600m GT)
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