Bug 21990 - Latest update to nVidia stops GL hacks in xscreensaver
Summary: Latest update to nVidia stops GL hacks in xscreensaver
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: 6
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nicolas Salguero
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Reported: 2017-11-07 19:23 CET by Doug Laidlaw
Modified: 2017-11-24 20:58 CET (History)
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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
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