F15 Gnome desktop lockups anybody?

Alexander Volovics a.volovic at upcmail.nl
Fri May 27 22:20:47 UTC 2011


On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 06:04:12PM -0400, KC8LDO wrote:

> I just built a new i7-870 box to use with Linux. The F15 installation went 
> fine. However after using the desktop for some minutes it locked up tight. 
> Even the mouse quit working. Reinstalled without using the hardware specific 
> video driver. Seemed to work OK for a while then locked tight when I went to 
> look at the system utilities menu window.
> 
> I gave up messing with it and I'm trying F14 now. See how that works. not 
> sure if I have a hardware issue or not.
> 
> Anybody else had the Gnome 3 desktop lockup on them under F15? If so is 
> there a fix?

Yes I experienced regular lockups/freezes using Gnome3.
This was due to the nouveau driver. Though having some 3D
capabilities it obviously did not have what it takes to
sustain the Gnome3 shell. (And anyway performance was
very shaky). This was with an Nvidia Geforce 7300 LE.

In Gnome3 fallback mode the problems have disapeared.

Guess I will have to try the proprietary Nvidia drivers, sigh.

Alexander


 


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