Bug#663345: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: Random freezes with latest version of kde and xorg
Sven Joachim said on Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 05:03:08PM +0100,:
> environment (e.g. "echo LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 >> /etc/environment",
> then log out and restart kdm).
Will try.
> This IGP appears to be problematic. Has it worked well with Nouveau
> before?
>
Worked in what sense? I have this machine for about 2/3 years (cant pinpoint
exact date). I used the proprietary kernel drivers for a longish period, and
then moved to the nouveau drivers, for past, say, 12/18 months.
Compositing (as in compiz and similar options) had not worked till last upgrade.
Almost everything else I wanted worked - most graphics intensive work I have
tried was childsplay and similar kids' games. This is mostly a browsing, text
editing and occassional VCD/DVD watching (small snippets only) machine.
Apps like glxgears have worked - but last time i tried - just for entertaining
the kids - was 3 months back.
Hmmm ... I moved to kde because that new version of GNOME insisted on 3D
acceleration, and could not persuade the machine to use 3D acceleration after
3 months of struggle.
Any way, I downgraded the version of x-x-video-nouveau, -core and some other
allied apps to testing. See below.
$ dpkg -l xserver-xorg* |grep ii
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.6+12 X.Org X server
ii xserver-xorg-core 2:1.11.3.901-2 Xorg X server - core server
ii xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.6.0-2+b2 X.Org X server -- evdev input driver
ii xserver-xorg-input-kbd 1:1.6.0-3+b1 X.Org X server -- keyboard input driver
ii xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1-1 X.Org X server -- Nouveau display driver
Now, I have no freezes for past more than one hour. So, this is definitely
a issue with teh nouveau driver; and probably, turnign off compositing
may help.
Will go back to nouveau version from experimental with that line in environment.
Let us see what happens.
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