Bug#323484: xserver-xorg: [nv] nv driver (repeatably) locks up system when running /usr/lib/xscreensaver/bubbles
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 19:27 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg
> Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-5
> Severity: important
>
>
> Running /usr/lib/xscreensaver/bubbles on my system with the 'nv' driver
> repeatably crashes the system after ~5 seconds. Note that 'bubbles'
> does *not* use GL, and that the system crashes even if the "dri" and "glx"
> modules are commented out of the Module section of xorg.conf.
Software rendered GL could hardly cause a problem like that, anyway.
> I fixed the problem only by changing from the 'nv' driver to the
> (evil, proprietary) 'nvidia' driver (which I don't like to have to do).
> This *should* indicate that the problem is in 'nv', but I see lots
> of other 'crashing' bugs filed against xserver-xorg, so maybe there
> is a more fundamental race problem at work here.
That's unlikely. Lots of hardware combinations trigger lots of bugs in
lots of drivers.
Assuming that disabling hardware acceleration with the nv driver works
around the problem, please try isolating a single acceleration primitive
using the "XaaNo..." options described in the xorg.conf manpage.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer
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