Be aware of using mesa driver experimental

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mtw
mtw
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A rejoint: 04/29/2011

Hi all,

I just want to say, that package "libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental" makes Trisquel more unstable. I know, it's experimental, but I just want to warn you. I have GeForce 7200 GS and Trisquel a few time crashed. If I want to insert any file to OpenOffice.org or open a Java games trough firefox, it'll crash.
I copy my /var/log/messages:

Sep 1 17:15:27 marcin kernel: [ 18.167939] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Allocating FIFO number 1
Sep 1 17:15:27 marcin kernel: [ 18.168729] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: nouveau_channel_alloc: initialised FIFO 1
Sep 1 17:15:27 marcin kernel: [ 18.398501] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Allocating FIFO number 2
Sep 1 17:15:27 marcin kernel: [ 18.399282] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: nouveau_channel_alloc: initialised FIFO 2
Sep 1 17:15:30 marcin kernel: [ 21.393722] EXT4-fs (sda1): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro,commit=0
Sep 1 17:15:30 marcin kernel: [ 21.396071] EXT4-fs (sda6): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0
Sep 1 17:15:30 marcin kernel: [ 21.592943] EXT4-fs (sda8): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0
Sep 1 17:15:31 marcin kernel: [ 22.546193] EXT4-fs (sda7): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0
Sep 1 17:15:33 marcin kernel: [ 24.377072] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Setting dpms mode 3 on vga encoder (output 0)
Sep 1 17:15:33 marcin kernel: [ 24.397555] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Setting dpms mode 0 on vga encoder (output 0)
Sep 1 17:15:33 marcin kernel: [ 24.397559] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Output VGA-1 is running on CRTC 0 using output A
Sep 1 17:15:36 marcin kernel: [ 27.030925] EXT4-fs (sda1): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro,commit=0
Sep 1 17:15:36 marcin kernel: [ 27.104662] EXT4-fs (sda6): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0
Sep 1 17:15:36 marcin kernel: [ 27.106726] EXT4-fs (sda8): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0
Sep 1 17:15:36 marcin kernel: [ 27.463777] EXT4-fs (sda7): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0
Sep 1 17:15:44 marcin kernel: [ 35.437659] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Allocating FIFO number 3
Sep 1 17:15:44 marcin kernel: [ 35.438432] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: nouveau_channel_alloc: initialised FIFO 3
Sep 1 17:15:56 marcin kernel: [ 47.643874] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Allocating FIFO number 4
Sep 1 17:15:56 marcin kernel: [ 47.644683] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: nouveau_channel_alloc: initialised FIFO 4
Sep 1 17:15:56 marcin kernel: [ 47.656246] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: nouveau_channel_free: freeing fifo 4

After uninstalling package "libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental" everything works well.

But it's good to hear, that there are people making free drivers, thank you.

Regards,
Marcin

Michał Masłowski

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Hors ligne
A rejoint: 05/15/2010

> I just want to say, that package "libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental" makes
> Trisquel more unstable. I know, it's experimental, but I just want to
> warn you. I have GeForce 7200 GS and Trisquel a few time crashed. If I
> want to insert any file to OpenOffice.org or open a Java games trough
> firefox, it'll crash.

As a user of Parabola GNU/Linux-libre with NV46 GPU (GeForce 7300 GS), I
had similar problems with some programs (I don't use LibreOffice or Java
often enough to know if they would also crash).

Nouveau doesn't accept bug reports for their NV4x 3d driver yet, unlike
for NV5x.

grvrulz
Hors ligne
A rejoint: 09/23/2010

My friend has a GeForce 9400M and his system is super stable(only blender crashes on right click). I think it's the card that is more or less supported.