Bug#683363: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: basically freezes when using some 3D apps (Neverball, etracer) on GeForce 7300 GS (EQ overflowing, mouse may still move)
On 2012-08-02 23:34 +0200, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
> I am very ignorant about graphics drivers, Mesa, 3D and nouveau, and
> it's great if Mesa 8.1 fixes this, but meanwhile, from what you're
> saying, I'm wondering if Mesa is the faulty part.
Could also be the kernel, but most likely it's Mesa.
> If I understand
> correctly that the Mesa driver doesn't support the card,
The driver does support the card, but it is rather buggy and not
supported itself by the upstream developers.
> isn't nouveau at fault for using that driver anyway?
There are several drivers for different card generations with varying
degrees of support; the problem is that they are contained in the same
file. See http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/MesaDrivers.
You can disable the 3D driver by putting LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 into
the environment; forget about most games then, since the software
renderer is usually too slow for them.
Cheers,
Sven
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