[openbox] Video overlay / nvidia-drivers weirdness

[Mikael Magnusson]

On 19 April 2014 14:40,  <meino.cramer at gmx.de> wrote:
> Dana Jansens <danakj at orodu.net> [14-04-19 14:32]:
>> On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 6:44 AM, <meino.cramer at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am runnig Gentoo Linux on a AMD64 machine using openbox
>> > as my preferred windowmanager.
>> >
>> > Recently with an update of the system beside other things
>> > the nvidia-drivers and the xorg-server were updated.
>> >
>> > Versions:
>> > (tried all of them)
>> > x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-304.121
>> > x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-337.12
>> > x11-wm/openbox-3.5.2-r1
>> > x11-wm/openbox-9999 (Gentoo nameing for "developper snapshot)
>> >
>> > Openbox is started via slim (login manager), which executes
>> > autostart.sh, which (beside other things) mutt in a urxvt
>> > terminal.
>> >
>>
>> Do you run a compositor in your autostart like xcompmgr or anything like
>> that?
>>
>
> No...pure ol' openbox. The one. The only :)
> Before update this setup has worked for a looooong time...

I had the same problem with the 334.21 drivers. However, it seems it's
not possible to use that driver with xorg 1.14 nor 325.15 with xorg
1.15. I only had the problem with the xorg 1.15 + 334.21 combo. The
bug is either in xorg 1.15 or the nvidia driver.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson