With NV3x adapters experiencing 3D screen corruption in F16/F17, and the abysmal gnome-shell performance of nvidia's 173.14.35 driver, I attempted a yum upgrade to rawhide for a look at Mesa-8.1, which I understand has a new driver. Unfortunately, that installation won't start up.
So, I've built Mesa-8.1-devel (and libdrm) from git on F17. It looks better, but there are issues. The login screen still has corruption, the shell has some rendering problems, I get lots of drm errors, and control-center crashes every time I try to open it.
I have this hardware, and I'll help get things shipshape for F18, but I'm going to need some guidance on how to proceed...
Linux F17 3.4.0-1.fc17.i686.PAE
OpenGL vendor string: nouveau OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on NV34 OpenGL version string: 1.5 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-6e7756d)
[10432.323596] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:04.0: PGRAPH - ERROR nsource: DATA_ERROR nstatus: BAD_ARGUMENT [10432.323612] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:04.0: PGRAPH - ch 3/7 class 0x0697 mthd 0x0208 data 0x04050348
On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 15:37 -0400, mwesten wrote:
[10432.323596] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:04.0: PGRAPH - ERROR nsource: DATA_ERROR nstatus: BAD_ARGUMENT [10432.323612] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:04.0: PGRAPH - ch 3/7 class 0x0697 mthd 0x0208 data 0x04050348
Driver bug. Probably best to follow up on nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org
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