nvidia-96xx xorg 1.11

[luinuz]

Xorg was updated to 1.11, which breaks ABI compatability with the latest nvidia-96xx drivers.
There will be an nvidia-96xx drivers update? broken support?

[bertitus]

Same request too

[cypherpunks]

Me three! -ignoreABI puts up some legible graphics for a few seconds, bit it doesn't last:

================ WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING ================
This server has a video driver ABI version of 11.0 that is not
supported by this NVIDIA driver. Please check
http://www.nvidia.com/ for driver updates or downgrade to an X
server with a supported driver ABI.
================================================== ===============
(WW) NVIDIA: The driver will continue to load, but may behave strangely.
(WW) NVIDIA: This server has an unsupported input driver ABI version (have 13.0, need < 13.0). The driver will continue to load, but may behave strangely.
Warning: Xalloc: requesting unpleasantly large amount of memory: 0 bytes.
Warning: Xalloc: requesting unpleasantly large amount of memory: 0 bytes.
Warning: Xalloc: requesting unpleasantly large amount of memory: 0 bytes.
Warning: Xalloc: requesting unpleasantly large amount of memory: 0 bytes.

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x37) [0xa7818197]
1: /usr/bin/X (0xa7693000+0x188caa) [0xa781bcaa]
2: (vdso) (__kernel_rt_sigreturn+0x0) [0xa767540c]
3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0xa5f0e000+0x59f583) [0xa64ad583]
Segmentation fault at address 0x10

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting


Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.x.org
for help.
Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.

Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
xinit: connection to X server lost

[anjal]

Since it's 96.*, the HW will be old (like mine, :-) ).
So far, from the last few years, if nVidia fixes one thing, they'll break something else, especially for the legacy drivers. And then won't care to comprehensively take care of the issue?

Does this mean it was working with all bells and whistles just before you upgraded?
What are your MB/GPU configurations?

[bertitus]

I don't want to trash my 6-years-old laptop, it works perfectly besides nvidia drivers.

[Gusar]

Originally Posted by bertitus

I don't want to trash my 6-years-old laptop, it works perfectly besides nvidia drivers.

Downgrade X and continue using your laptop as always. Duh. Or is someone holding a gun to your head, forcing you to have 1.11 installed?

[joerg.sigle]

I'd also like 96.x.x with X.Org 1.11 support. In the long term, would highly prefer that over downgrading, because you can just wait until using an older release of X.Org may fail to fulfill dependencies of some other newer software package...