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UralZima
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 Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2017 7:10 am Post subject: Totally disable hardware 3D acceleration, force software |
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Hello. I want to boot with nouveau.no_accel=1, because nouveau freezes often on any 3D activity.
If I use 3D, every day twice I have total freeze of my GK106 with bunch of nouveau pgraph errors and only reset helps. Especially when a browser does some WebGL. No way to reload nouveau driver. And this is with blobs, without blobs it working much worst.
I want to use only software rendering (I know it's slow). Right now if I boot with this kernel arg, Plasma is not starting, because it needs opengl.
localhost # eselect mesa list
i915 (Intel 915, 945)
i965 (Intel GMA 965, G/Q3x, G/Q4x, HD)
r300 (Radeon R300-R500)
r600 (Radeon R600-R700, Evergreen, Northern Islands)
sw (Software renderer)
[1] classic
[2] gallium *
I don't see 'sw' in my list and didn't found any use flags related. How to switch any opengl activity to software rendering? |
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Logicien
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Location: Montréal
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| Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2017 3:18 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
the kernel parameter must be nouveau.noaccel=1. You can use too nouveau.nofbaccel=1 too. For Xorg, you have to pass parameters to nouveau
| Code: | man nouveau
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Option "AccelMethod" "string"
Specify the acceleration method. One of "none", or "exa". Default: exa.
Option "NoAccel" "boolean"
Disable or enable acceleration. Default: acceleration is enabled.
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I have this video card
| Code: | lspci
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01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK208 [GeForce GT 730] (rev a1)
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It freeze sometime with nouveau when Seamonkey is the active window. Linux give me this message about missing firmware files after I have open an Xfce4 session:
| Code: | [18775.554552] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for nouveau/nv106_fuc084 failed with error -2
[18775.554569] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for nouveau/nv106_fuc084d failed with error -2 |
All required firmware packages are installed but those files do not exist.
| Code: | equery l *firmware*
* Searching for *firmware* ...
[IP-] [ ] sys-firmware/nvidia-firmware-340.32:0
[IP-] [ ] sys-kernel/linux-firmware-20170314:0 |
I have enable and disable hardware acceleration in Seamonkey but this have change nothing. I use the ~amd64 versions of the gentoo-sources and xf86-video-nouveau. Xorg do not freeze often. I can ssh to Gentoo when it's happen. ArchLinux have the same problem too but Linux do not say there are missing firmware files.
I want to give full chances to nouveau to work properly. nouveau give me enough acceleration for what I do. I work to resolv the problem without disabling the hardware acceleration because there is no reason to not work with a recent video card.
I prefer to use an other video card than Nvidia instead of disabling the hardware acceleration or using the proprietary nvidia-drivers package. Some of the Nvidia card features need their signed drivers to work. The reverse engineering of the nouveau developpers have it's limit.
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Roman_Gruber
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Location: Austro Bavaria
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| Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2017 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Why not use VESA? temporarily? videocards => vesa |
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Leio
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Posts: 494
Location: Estonia
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| Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2017 7:31 pm Post subject: Re: Totally disable hardware 3D acceleration, force software |
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| UralZima wrote: | localhost # eselect mesa list
i915 (Intel 915, 945)
i965 (Intel GMA 965, G/Q3x, G/Q4x, HD)
r300 (Radeon R300-R500)
r600 (Radeon R600-R700, Evergreen, Northern Islands)
sw (Software renderer)
[1] classic
[2] gallium *
I don't see 'sw' in my list and didn't found any use flags related. How to switch any opengl activity to software rendering? |
These are the choices for software renderer... swrast (classic) or llvmpipe (gallium)...
There can be multiple classic/gallium choices, e.g if you had built i965 driver, you'd see "classic" for that too; or if had built for r600/radeonsi you'd see a "gallium" for that too - and if had built a 32bit mesa too via ABI_X86 then 32bit choices for all of those too. eselect mesa is showing them all, but you only have choices for sw. If you had more, then for "eselect mesa set" you'd have to potentially specify 32bit|64bit, <family> <architecture> etc, "eselect mesa" tells you all about it as help.
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Ant P.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2017 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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You can set LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE to disable it per-program, e.g.:
| Code: | ~ $ LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 glxinfo -B
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OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 4.0, 128 bits) |
If you're using Firefox, about:config -> webgl.disabled will let you turn that off while not making the rest of the browser run like molasses. |
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