Comment 55 for bug 760632

@eagles051387
I'm sorry but I beg to differ. I think we CAN pin the blame fairly and squarely on nVidia. This is a copy of the latest response I have received from nVidia's "customer care", following yet another a fairly strongly worded email from me with regard to nVidia's total lack of activity in this regard:-

"Hello,

I escalated this problem to the Linux Engineering Manager. An Engineer has been assigned to work on this at high priority. We are targeting the fix for the upcoming 275.xx driver which is currently planned to ship in early June 2011."

Added to which, it is NOT just Konsole that is affected. Granted it is the app most likely to crash the entire system. But resizing gnome-terminal will also crash the system - though I accept you need to try harder in order to do so. Then there is the matter of the weird desktop artefacts. Sure, there are workarounds for the crashing - though I've yet to find a workaround for the artefacts.

Fact is that nVidia claims to support Linux. Many users, including myself, bought nVidia products on the basis of nVidia's advertised claim. Remember, nVidia's software products are also closed source, which means its users are lumbered with whatever it provides. Added to which, nVidia is NOT just a handful of well-meaning open-source type guys, working for free in their bedrooms. nVidia is a massive, profit-making, NASDAQ 100 corporation, with more than 6000 employees and an estimated enterprise value of $9.6 billion. In other words, nVidia has PLENTY of resources at its disposal.

Therefore, the onus is clearly on nVidia to honour its advertised claims and fix the problem. It is not for its users to work around it.

Best wishes, G