On 2012-07-31 02:21 +0200, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
On this system, using a GeForce 7300 GS, nouveau works for general
display, but has a big problem with 3D acceleration.
Yes, the 3D driver in Mesa 8.0 and earlier for this card is known to
have problems, and it's unsupported upstream. See also
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40406 for a similar case
with the same card.
I noticed this
when starting Neverball. It froze about 2 seconds after starting. The
cursor would then keep moving, but nothing else would
happen. Switching to a tty won't work. I reproduced this at
will. Apparently, the freeze always happens at a specific point. In
Neverball, the welcome screen uses 3D acceleration, so there is no
need to do anything to provoke the crash.
Does it get any better if you disable AIGLX in xorg.conf or downgrade
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau to the version in testing?
I tested the nvidia driver on the same machine and I don't get the
same issue.
If you're serious about 3D, the blob is the least of the evils, at least
until Mesa 8.1 is released
I am able to SSH into the machine when it's frozen and the console
works fine. I can kill X and restart the display manager, but I
couldn't recover (the screen gets garbled).
See http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/LockupRecovery for possibilities
to recover from the GPU lockup.