New Kernel Breaks Nouveau 3-D

[GrayFox]

Hi,

It appears that kernel 2.6.34.6-47.fc13.i686.PAE broke 'Desktop Effects' for nouveau.

I have mesa-dri-drivers-experimental-7.8.1-8 drivers installed but choosing the
'Desktop Effects' menu item gets a 3-D not available message.

Any one else have this problem or know a solution?

Jerry

[nyjetshead]

Same here, update broke 3-D.
Also looking for a solution.

[GrayFox]

I filed a bug about this on bugzilla.redhat.com ( bug 628653).

It appears that the kernel disables acceleration if it deems the graphics chipset
buggy ;(

You can *force* acceleration by adding the kernel parameter:
nouveau.noaccel=0

to the kernel boot parameters.

However this might bring back the infamous graphics lockup problem...

Jerry

[mjrice]

I'm not sure what has changed, but Flash seems to be hosed. It starts up OK (with sound), then becomes jerky, then sound drops and video has big pauses, and finally the video freezes altogether, all the while both cores are at 100%.

It was working like a charm last week. 760p with sound and not a burb on a 10 minute video.

I'm on F13 (32 bit) nvidia 9400 GT

What happened?

Michael

[joejoebob]

Originally Posted by GrayFox

I filed a bug about this on bugzilla.redhat.com ( bug 628653).

It appears that the kernel disables acceleration if it deems the graphics chipset
buggy ;(

You can *force* acceleration by adding the kernel parameter:
nouveau.noaccel=0

to the kernel boot parameters.

However this might bring back the infamous graphics lockup problem...

Jerry

That solves my problem.

[mjrice]

It's still doing the same thing. Everything works OK as long as I don't go to full-screen. If I do, even the lowest rez videos

1) Start pausing (sound and picture) only seconds into the video
2) Pausing keeps getting worse and worse
3) Picture and sound comes to complete stop. Picture doesn't disappear, it just pauses and stays paused. Even if I leave full-screen, I cannot get it moving again, but it continues downloading the video. My CPUs are at at 99% and 66% AND my network is receiving at ~ 68 KiB/s. Everything drops off when I close FireFox.

I tried the same video in two other distros, Puppy 5.1 and Mint 8, and have no problems there, so I know it's either Fedora 13 or something got hosed in my system.

I'm just going to wait for Nov. and Fedora 14 to see if the problem persists, unless someone thinks of a way to diagnose it.

Michael

[joejoebob]

Originally Posted by mjrice

It's still doing the same thing. Everything works OK as long as I don't go to full-screen. If I do, even the lowest rez videos

1) Start pausing (sound and picture) only seconds into the video
2) Pausing keeps getting worse and worse
3) Picture and sound comes to complete stop. Picture doesn't disappear, it just pauses and stays paused. Even if I leave full-screen, I cannot get it moving again, but it continues downloading the video. My CPUs are at at 99% and 66% AND my network is receiving at ~ 68 KiB/s. Everything drops off when I close FireFox.

I tried the same video in two other distros, Puppy 5.1 and Mint 8, and have no problems there, so I know it's either Fedora 13 or something got hosed in my system.

I'm just going to wait for Nov. and Fedora 14 to see if the problem persists, unless someone thinks of a way to diagnose it.

Michael

Have you updated Firefox or flash?

[mjrice]

The only updates to my original Fedora 13 clean install have come from Fedora, and I've installed each and every one of them.

Why?

Michael