On Monday 30 July 2007 19:25, Robin Laing wrote: > Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > 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? > > Does the Nouveau driver crash in the same way as the Nvidia driver? Well, sort of... After I do a startx the screen blanks, and in nvidia driver case, stays there (all I can do is reset the machine). In nouveau case it does the same, but after several seconds X gets killed automatically and I end up back in the prompt, so I don't have to reset. > 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'll try that with the nv driver, to check. Nvidia driver doesn't start for me, so I cannot compare. > Also, I have not had a freeze in F7 with the latest two kernels. I > still have problems using the nvidia drivers though. I'm still running kernel 2.6.21-1.3228. Being on dial-up makes updating a bit hard to do. But I'll mirror the repositories again on Friday when I get to the office, bring them home on a couple of dvds, and then I'll start testing the drivers again with a newer kernel. Best, :-) Marko Marko Vojinovic Institute of Physics University of Belgrade ====================== e-mail: vmarko@xxxxxxxxxxxx
