>>>>>> Launching firefox is causing a system crash with a black or white >>>>>> screen and diagonal lines across it. I've tried the latest nouveau >>>>>> from git and the latest kernel. I can't find anything in the logs >>>>>> unfortunately. Any ideas? >>>>>> >>>>>> 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce >>>>>> 6150SE nForce 430] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) >>>>>> Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 7309 >>>>>> Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 40 >>>>>> Memory at de000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] >>>>>> Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] >>>>>> Memory at dd000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] >>>>>> Expansion ROM at dfd40000 [disabled] [size=128K] >>>>>> Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2 >>>>>> Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ >>>>>> Kernel driver in use: nouveau >>>>> >>>>> Someone just opened a bug about NV4E. You have NV4C, but one could >>>>> imagine that there would be similarities. See >>>>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73445 and feel free to >>>>> add yourself to it if that matches your symptoms (esp if it's a 3.13 >>>>> regression). Otherwise, more information would be nice. See >>>>> http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Bugs/ for the sort of information >>>>> that's generally useful. >>>> >>>> I should also mention that rebooting allows firefox to open. It seems >>>> to crash if it is opened after the system has been running for awhile. >>>> >>>> I tried nouveau.config=NvMSI=0 but it didn't help. >>>> >>>> - Grant >>> >>> Can anyone help me out here? This has been really disruptive to my >>> organization. Unchecking "Use hardware acceleration when available" >>> in firefox also doesn't seem to fix it. Anything else I could try? >> >> Launch firefox with LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 -- that should avoid using >> nouveau for any sort of 3d. >> >> Is this a new thing, or has it always been the case? If it's new, any >> idea what changed? > > Thank you, I will try that ASAP. I was trying to use the epiphany and > midori browsers for a long time but eventually had to give up and > switch to firefox and this problem popped up right away. > > - Grant
Is there anything I could put in xorg.conf for this? The system that's having trouble is being used in a remote office and I'm not sure its users are up to the task of LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1. - Grant _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
