Bug#912325: glamor0: GL error: GL_OUT_OF_MEMORY in glBufferData, GL_INVALID_OPERATION, X server crashes

[Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net>]

On 2020-01-24 2:45 p.m., Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-core
> Version: 2:1.20.7-2
> Followup-For: Bug #912325
> Control: affects 912325 xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
> Control: forcemerge 912325 943893
> Control: retitle 912325 xserver-xorg-core: SIGSEGV with glamor0: GL error: GL_OUT_OF_MEMORY with xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
> 
> This issue is still pertinent, although reportbug suggested #943893
> to me which points out that this might be due to nouveau, which is,
> indeed, the driver in use on this particular system.
> 
> What can I do, besides switch to the proprietary driver? Perhaps with
> fbdev or modesetting? (That would probably lose me OpenGL performance?)

You're probably using the modesetting driver already, since the Xorg
nouveau driver doesn't support glamor. The fundamental problem is in the
kernel and/or Mesa nouveau drivers.


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