Bug 21990

Summary:	Latest update to nVidia stops GL hacks in xscreensaver
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Nicolas Salguero <nicolas.salguero>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11
Version:	6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=233070
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Source RPM:	xscreensaver-gl	CVE:
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Description Doug Laidlaw 2017-11-07 19:23:10 CET

Description of problem:
Just updated the nvidia-GL packages.  Now xscreensaver openGL hacks no longer work.  Seems identical to the 2016 bug in the quoted URL.  The error message is the same.

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Comment 1 Doug Laidlaw 2017-11-07 19:40:39 CET

If a better report comes in, please make this the duplicate.  I'd rather not have the carriage of an OpenGL bug.

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2017-11-07 21:25:39 CET

Assigning to the registered xscreensaver-gl maintainer.

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => nicolas.salguero

Comment 3 Doug Laidlaw 2017-11-24 20:58:51 CET

There has been a new X driver RPM for nvidia.  Either that has fixed the bug, or the problem has simply gone away.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED