On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 10:23 AM Tom Horsley <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 07:55:10 -0400
> Neal Becker wrote:
>
> > https://www.phoronix.com/news/Avoid-Nouveau-Linux-6.3
>
> I give nouveau a chance every time I install a new fedora, eventually
> (2 hours, 2 weeks, it varies) I get a video crash and frozen
> desktop, then I install the rpmfusion nvidia drivers.
>
> I don't remember how many releases ago nouveau was actually
> reliable.
>

You can't expect perfection from reverse engineering, but open source
means you get the benefit of "given* enough* eyeballs, all bugs are
shallow".

The previous problem I had was about a year ago caused by a simple mistake.
A patch was already available by the time I encountered the problem.  The
current issue has been difficult to pin down.

>From https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/nouveau/-/issues/213: 2 weeks ago:

A post at
https://lore.kernel.org/nouveau/CACrD=+-duomkwxe0x5m5vmfs_jijjpgnqvxuq+qimie99vm...@mail.gmail.com/
has what seems to be a very plausible explanation for the cause of the
problem,
identifies and analyzes the source code responsible, and provides patches
inline
and via links. Can these be reviewed and if acceptable merged into the
project?

This doesn't solve the issue, but today Dave Airlie posted:

0001-nouveau-fix-client-work-fence-deletion-race.patch
<https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/nouveau/uploads/150dc8a040dc18aee72fa12d7c506bc3/0001-nouveau-fix-client-work-fence-deletion-race.patch>:
"This seems to have existed for ever but is now more apparant[SIC]"
It is sad how many people switch to proprietary drivers or change distros
rather than
helping pin down the conditions that trigger a bug and then helping test
proposed fixes.

-- 
George N. White III
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