Sven Arvidsson wrote:
On Wed, 2016-07-06 at 22:06 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Greetings everybody,
This is a newly installed Sid system that has 2 Samsung HD502HJ disks
of
500GB and a Samsung SSD830 of 128GB.
It has 2 graphics cards, Model:"nVidia G98 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2]".
The reason it is a new install is because I have for years run the
NVidia closed source driver but they dropped support for these cards
to
Legacy-940.96, which has problems with the Sid level of the kernel
and
the gcc compiler.
So I tried to purge the NVidia driver and install nouveau, but was
unable to do so. So I did a new install which installed nouveau when
I
installed xorg. It looks and behaves just the way NVidia used to.
I usually run on the HD502HJ disks but wanted to see how this new
install would run on the SSD830, so I ran a copy of the new system
on
that disk.
I run google-chrome-beta as browser and never have any problems on
the
HD502HJ. But on the SSD830 I was getting lots of not responding
applications that had to be killed and not responding plugin. It
made
the system unusable.
The only difference between the 2 systems is the disk on which they
run.
I have tried to google for this error but was not too successful.
The
moment you enter 'nouveau' as a search term it thinks I am a French
speaker.
Has anybody ever come across this strange behavior? What do you
suggest?
Hugo.
Your reasoning is a bit hard to follow. If the only difference is the
SSD why do you suspect the graphics card at all?
What exactly is the problem, is it something that is specific to Google
Chrome?
I'm sorry for the faulty reasoning Sven. I do not suspect the graphics
card, but have doubts about nouveau. This is the first time with nouveau
on the SSD. I was there before, but with NVidia closed source drivers
and I don't remember these sort of problems. But Felix has given a good
idea to see whether nouveau is at fault.
I only use Google-Chrome and it sometimes puts up a screen when an
application does not respond anymore and asks whether they should wait
longer or kill it now. In this case I was getting those screens very
frequently so that the browser was unusable. Also there were screens
that the plugin had become unresponsive, should that be killed.
I never see those on the HD502HJ's.
Hugo
