Problems with nouveau driver on F19

[Pratyush Sahay]

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Pratyush Sahay
<pratyush.a.sahay at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> On a system with nouveau driver, in addition to the modal window causing
> task switch, am also repeatedly hitting the following bug when using
> meshlab on gnome-shell or cinnamon:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=970141
>
> $ glxinfo | grep -i opengl
> OpenGL vendor string: nouveau
> OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on NV44
> OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 9.2.0
> OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
>
> $ rpm -qa | grep meshlab
> meshlab-1.3.2-1.fc19.x86_64
>
> rpm -qa | grep gnome-shell
> gnome-shell-3.8.2-3.fc19.x86_64
>
> If I switch to using Software rendering (cinnamon) on the same system,
> meshlab opens without hitting the above bug. On another F19 installation
> with intel drivers, this issue doesnt happen when using gnome-shell or
> cinnamon.
>
>
>
 Hello all,

In addition to the above problem, am experiencing gnome-shell freeze too on
the system with nouveau drivers. The same system worked quite fine on F18.
One of the log files in /var/log/gdm gives the following info:

(EE)
(EE) Backtrace:
(EE) 0: /usr/bin/Xorg (OsLookupColor+0x129) [0x46e539]
(EE) 1: /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (__restore_rt+0x0) [0x373b00ef9f]
(EE) 2: /lib64/libc.so.6 (__memcpy_ssse3+0x1920) [0x373ad40670]
(EE) 3: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libexa.so (exaMoveOutPixmap+0xed6)
[0x7f0564f27406]
(EE) 4: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libexa.so (exaMoveOutPixmap+0x1393)
[0x7f0564f27ab3]
(EE) 5: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libexa.so (exaMoveOutPixmap+0x3a12)
[0x7f0564f2c852]
(EE) 6: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libexa.so (exaEnableDisableFBAccess+0x30c2)
[0x7f0564f34332]
(EE) 7: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libexa.so (exaMoveOutPixmap+0x4099)
[0x7f0564f2d699]
(EE) 8: /usr/bin/Xorg (dixDestroyPixmap+0x1109) [0x434cc9]
(EE) 9: /usr/bin/Xorg (SendErrorToClient+0x3f7) [0x436e47]
(EE) 10: /usr/bin/Xorg (_init+0x3ab2) [0x429ae2]
(EE) 11: /lib64/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x373ac21b75]
(EE) 12: /usr/bin/Xorg (_start+0x29) [0x426741]
(EE) 13: ? (?+0x29) [0x29]
(EE)
(EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x8

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting

(EE)
Please consult the Fedora Project support
     at http://wiki.x.org

The following are the details of the chipset and the driver
$ lspci | grep -i nvidia
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV44 [Quadro NVS 285]
(rev a1)

$ rpm -qa | grep nouveau
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.7-1.fc19.x86_64

-- 
Regards,
Pratyush Sahay
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