Comment 32 for bug 121574

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Bryan Donlan (bdonlan) wrote : Re: [Bug 121574] Re: Open source nv X crashes whenever applications use gl

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:20 PM, oz <email address hidden> wrote:
> So you're saying you did not fix a bug in one of the mayor GPU drivers
> for 2 and a half years, and now give up on it, because there is another,
> different driver available for another release, while the bug still
> exists? Fsck it. That's really poor. However, there's Debian running on
> the box with closed source nvidia for half a year now.

They're fixing the bug by replacing the driver completely. Presumably
the old driver was broken beyond repair.