[Mesa-dev] Help for a beginner

[Ian Romanick]

On 10/06/2011 11:46 AM, Romain Failliot wrote:
> 2011/10/6 Ian Romanick<idr at freedesktop.org>:
>> You will have to *completely* uninstall the NVIDIA closed-source driver in
>> order to use the Mesa driver.  NVIDIA installs their own kernel module and
>> their own libGL, so it is impossible for both to live on the same system.
>
> Well, last time I checked (2 months ago), nouveau drivers were bad for
> my graphic card, its temperature increased until the system froze...
> Have you heard of this issue and eventually a fix?

Usually this means that the fan throttling built-in to the card doesn't 
work correctly.  Every NVIDIA card I've ever owned has had this 
problem... even with their own drivers.  The usual solution is to use a 
fan-tweak utility to increase the fan speed.

> I'll retry nouveau driver, but if the issue is still here, I'll have
> to buy an ATI card.

If you're going to try and develop the drivers, you have to be able to 
run them. :)