Re: [F7] Nouveau driver crashing X

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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
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e-mail: vmarko@xxxxxxxxxxxx



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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