[F7] Nouveau driver crashing X
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Mon Jul 30 19:25:39 UTC 2007
Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> While giving up on closed nvidia drivers for the time being (I'll give it
> another shot in a month or two, when I get more free time), I just tried the
> open-source alternative for 3D on my old nVidia GeForce 4, namely nouveau.
>
> This driver also crashes X (though not so severely, for it brings me back into
> the prompt after the crash), so I need some advice. I read the Xorg.0.log,
> and while it does not give me any hint as to why the crash occurred, I see
> that it looks for the file /usr/lib/dri/nouveau_dri.so, and fails to find it
> (because the file isn't there, as I checked). But it passes over that error
> and continues, crashing somewhat later for no apparent reason in the log. So,
> three questions:
>
> 1) Why is the file nouveau_dri.so missing?
> 2) Why does X crash?
> 3) What can I do about it?
>
> The log file and xorg.conf are attached. I should also mention that the basic
> nv driver Just Works, of course without 3D.
>
> Any help?
>
> Best, :-)
> Marko
>
> Marko Vojinovic
> Institute of Physics
> University of Belgrade
> ======================
> e-mail: vmarko at phy.bg.ac.yu
>
>
Does the Nouveau driver crash in the same way as the Nvidia driver?
With both the Nvidia driver and the nv driver, I can see xorg climb when
viewing a video and scanning forward or increasing the speed with mplayer.
What I do is open top with the -d 1 so I get a quick update.
I then play a movie in mplayer and change the speed of the playback
using }. Watching he %CPU show Xorg climb to a much higher value than
is necessary. This doesn't happen in FC6.
Just trying to gather more information on the video issue and nvidia cards.
Also, I have not had a freeze in F7 with the latest two kernels. I
still have problems using the nvidia drivers though.
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