Random freezes under F23

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sun Nov 8 13:44:19 UTC 2015


On Sun, 2015-11-08 at 12:30 +0100, Florian Sievert wrote:
> Hi there,
> > I've had a couple of random desktop freezes in F23 under Plasma,
> > both
> > of them while using Chrome. I have an Nvidia card with Nouveau.
> > 
> > Anyone else seeing this? How about with the Nvidia drivers?
> I am using a downgraded Xorg 1.17 with manually installed prop.
> NVIDIA
> driver. No issue observed so far. I had quite some issues before the
> downgrade when attempting to get the Nouveau running as KDE was
> freezing
> the system during the load screen. I assumed some driver issues
> there.
> My best guess would be to switch the Composite a bit... did you try
> using OpenGL 2.0 instead of OpenGL 3.2 or Xrender and checking if the
> freezes are gone? If prop. driver are an option, give it a try.

I'll consider downgrading and using the proprietary driver if that's
the quickest solution. Don't really feel like doing regression testing
on all the possible variables.

Thanks.

poc


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