[F7] Nouveau driver crashing X

[Sam Varshavchik]

Marko Vojinovic writes:

> Hi everyone!
> 
> While giving up on closed nvidia drivers for the time being (I'll give it 
> another shot in a month or two, when I get more free time), I just tried the 
> open-source alternative for 3D on my old nVidia GeForce 4, namely nouveau.
> 
> This driver also crashes X (though not so severely, for it brings me back into 
> the prompt after the crash), so I need some advice. I read the Xorg.0.log, 
> and while it does not give me any hint as to why the crash occurred, I see 
> that it looks for the file /usr/lib/dri/nouveau_dri.so, and fails to find it 
> (because the file isn't there, as I checked). But it passes over that error 
> and continues, crashing somewhat later for no apparent reason in the log. So, 
> three questions:
> 
> 1) Why is the file nouveau_dri.so missing?

Noveau is a "work-in-progress", and some bits of it are not done yet.

See the Fedora 7-specific comments in here:

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/2007-June/000106.html

> 2) Why does X crash?

Because it has a bug.

> 3) What can I do about it?

Wait about a year, and see if things improve. Noveau does seem to be in 
fairly active development, but things are not yet at the point where most 
people can use it.

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