Bug#799686: nouveau: Unable to launch any glx based exes
Control: reassign -1 libgl1-mesa-dri 10.6.3-1
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
On 2015-09-21 16:11 +0200, David Creelman wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
> Version: 1:1.0.11-1+b1
> Severity: important
> File: nouveau
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> This started happening about a month ago. May be because of nouveau, may be a glx bug?
> Please forgive if it's not nouveau. Any idea how I can find out more about what is not working ?
> Happy to help if you need more information.
>
> I run apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade several times a week, something must have been updated.. Not sure when.
> Discovered it first when trying to run a gl based screen saver. Needed to restart my machine....
> Once I worked out it was xscreensaver failing, I ran the xscreensaver exe in a window rather than fullscreen
> and noticed that it started up black and was kind of locked, ie. even if I did ctrl-c, the window wouldn't die
> without xkill.
> A screensaver to show this issue is voronoi under xscreensaver.
>
> Have tried reinstalling (via apt-get purge xserver-xorg, xfce4 and then apt-get install of same).
>
> Still getting the same error when starting anything that uses glx
That's a bug in the 3D driver, reassigning to that package.
> I had hoped that I'd get glx apps working again, but no luck I'm afraid.
You could try libgl1-mesa-dri from unstable. It depends on libllvm3.5v5
which conflicts with the libllvm3.5 package though, so you might only
want to try that if you don't have other packages depending on
libllvm3.5.
Good luck,
Sven
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