13 Feb
2012
13 Feb
'12
6:02 a.m.
On Monday 13 February 2012 12:10:05 am /dev/ammo42 wrote:
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:32:04 -0500
Kristopher John Gamrat <chaotickjg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I have driver
crashes:
-under Slackware 13.1, as soon as I enable KDE 4.4's KWin effects.
(I use Mesa 7.7.1 as 7.8.1 has a severe performance regression with
StepMania)
-under Slackware 13.1, after too many cycles of suspend/resume (highly
variable)
-under Slackware 13.37, when using KDE 4.5 with or without KWin
effects, after at least a half dozen of hours (highly variable)
-under Slackware 13.37, when I play a Xv-accelerated video, then open
an OpenGL game, then close it when the video is still playing (often)
On my AMD laptop, with FOSS drivers, I can simultaneously have KWin
effects, play a video and launch a 3D game without any crash and with
reasonable preformance.
Have you tried your Intel card on any distro but Slackware? Also, have you tried any
desktop besides KDE4? It might be a glitch in one of the Slackware packages (either a
recompile of the driver or trying on another distro could tell), or one of the glitches in
KDE4 (I seem to remember having a lot of crashes in KDE 4 on several different cards,
though I haven't used it since 4.6 and I hear that 4.8 is supposed to be fairly
stable). I never got around to trying out Slackware, so I wouldn't be able to test the
driver or KDE 4 from within Slackware on my machine.
Purely for comparison purposes, on my Debian Squeeze install, Intel driver, Intel Mobile
Series 4 Integrated Chipset (includes my video card, as is usually the case with Intel):
-I never tried any of the special KWin effects in any KDE version, nor Compiz (never
really cared much for eye-candy)
-I can suspend to RAM and resume countless times without problems aside from impatient
programs that don't want to wait for my network manager to reconnect ;-) (I never
tried suspend to disk)
-I can run my computer full-power almost the entire day without a crash (unless you count
the random crashes the occur if I inadvertently block the fan).
-I've never heard of Xv-accelerated videos before, though on many occasions, I've
had a lot of stuff running at once (including either a DVD or Youtube video) when my
screen saver activates, and a few of those times, it was one of the OpenGL screen savers.
--
Kris Gamrat
Ark Linux webmaster
http://www.arklinux.org/
There is
a FOSS radeon driver for which some developers at AMD are
paid to work on it, and on my experience it works OK both for light
3D games and KDE4 compositing (even better than AMD proprietary
driver for the latter). And compared to Intel drivers I've almost
never seen it crash.
I'm using an Intel card right now (same one since December 2009) with
the FOSS Intel driver. I've never seen any crash cause by the driver,
all crashes thus far were either a glitch in some program that
overloaded my CPU, or from overheating (though this usually leads to
a kernel panic rather than an X.org crash).
Of course, I rarely run anything that requires 3D acceleration.