[Nouveau] nouveau locking up on Debian Jessie.

Ilia Mirkin imirkin at alum.mit.edu
Sat Mar 21 08:07:19 PDT 2015


Would you be able to build your own package if I sent a patch? If not,
I'm afraid there won't be much I can do to help you.

On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Megaf <mmegaf at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Unfortunately I'm not really comfortable editing code, I'm using the current
> X11 and nouveau from Debian Jessie repos.
> I've noticed that this begun to happen on Debian Jessie, Debian Wheezy (The
> current stable) don't have this problem.
>
> https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
> https://packages.debian.org/jessie/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
>
> If you tell me exactly what file to modify I will try.
>
> My guess about the issue is the GPU rendering of the web browsers is somehow
> conflicting with video players/3D apps/games since this lockup is much rarer
> when a single application is using the GPU, either for GL rendering or some
> video decoding task.


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