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. > X logs backtrace and reports EQ overflowing. As I write these lines, I > realize the highly abnormal X log files on the system. This probably > comes from an nvidia driver-related bug. gdm would not start nor fail > to start before I configured X to use the nvidia driver. Actually, this is a gdm3 bug. Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/871ujqtqet....@turtle.gmx.de
