Journal stoolpigeon's Journal: Fedora 18, Nouveau and Firefox 1
What happens if I open Firefox on my Fedora 18 box and visit the Google Sites page that Sophie Schmidt made about her visit to North Korea? This happens. That's a screen shot of both my monitors. On the left is Firefox and on the right is Chrome which was open to the Journal Entry writing page here. And it got much worse once I closed Firefox. Plasma pretty much took a dump at that point and I had to log out/log in to get back to a usable desktop.
If I run with the nVidia drivers I don't have this issue with Firefox. And even if I don't run Firefox - little artifacts like those in the screen shot will build up over time with the Nouveau drivers. Pretty much immediately if I have any desktop effects enabled. So why don't I just use the nVidia drivers all the time? Well - because I figured out today that under the nVidia drivers using Google Hangouts crashes KDE completely. As in kicking me out and forcing me to log back in. And I need Hangouts for work.
Very frustrating. So I'm stuck back on the Nouveau drivers and playing around looking for some magical set of options that will bring some stability and maybe even the ability to use my beloved Firefox again. The only up side right now is that abrt wont be giving me crap about having a tainted kernel any more. I hate software that has to exhibit moral superiority.
On a side note - I guess I can't add tags to journal entries any more. I guess I never paid attention to them anyway. They don't show up in the je list and I just used titles to find stuff anyway.
Nouveau (Score:2)
I've also got problems that I think are related to the nouveau driver. I've been having odd hangs lately (system crashes, really), and the last thing in the logs before I hard reset are nouveau errors. I've grown accustomed to finding my computer frozen when I get up in the morning.
My visual artifacts aren't as striking as yours, but instead text just vanishes. Usually it's in the menu, on the desktop (XFCE) or in the URL (Google Chrome), and usually it repaints just fine if the mouse comes near it.
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