[F7] Nouveau driver crashing X

[Robin Laing]

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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