Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1046 mails)

[Roger Oberholtzer <roger@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 10:43 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 10:36 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
>
> > When I an writing this message, the error seems to be relayed to the
> > mouse. But most of the time it has been about enabling 3D. I have all
> > desktop effects disabled globally. So I do not know if there were two
> > problems or a common underlying problem introduced.
>
> I have found the other message:
>
>       Failed to initialize the 3D engine
>       Failed to allocate 3D objects
>
> This is in the X server log when the graphics system becomes
> unresponsive. It is written each time the unresponsive behavior occurs
> (and the CPU usage goes to 100%). And as I write, occasionally this
> causes the server to crash. But 9 out of 10 times it is just the
> temporary (10 seconds) freezing and these messages.

It is the nvidia driver that causes this. If I do not install the
driver, then this does not happen. I suspect it is because the nvidia
driver seems to think it should do hardware 3D acceleration, even if it
should not do so. Or at least it does not do so correctly with this
chip.

I have disabled the nvidia repo, and now use the 'nv' driver, and all
works as before. Except I guess some things are now done in software
that, a little over a week ago, were done in hardware...



Yours sincerely,

Roger Oberholtzer

OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST

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