>>>>>>> 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?
I can prevent this crash with the following in xorg.conf: Option "NoAccel" "on" - Grant >>>>>>> 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
