I managed to solve a bit more of the lockup puzzle last night... looks like
missing libraries.
I'm running Debian unstable; and it seems they package the Mesa libraries in
a couple of packages, and don't tell you which ones you need. :(
after I added the xlibosmesa3 package ('offscreen rendering for mesa'), I
can now run for about 1/2 hour before the screen freezes. (instead of 1-2
minutes).
here's the mesa stuff I have installed:
chrome at steel:~$ dpkg -l *mesa*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
un mesa-dev <none> (no description available)
ii mesademos 3.4.2-1 Example programs for Mesa (and OpenGL in
gen
pn mesag-dev <none> (no description available)
pn mesag-glide2-d <none> (no description available)
pn mesag-widgets- <none> (no description available)
pn mesag3 <none> (no description available)
pn mesag3+ggi <none> (no description available)
pn mesag3+ggi-dev <none> (no description available)
un mesag3-glide <none> (no description available)
pn mesag3-glide2 <none> (no description available)
pn mesag3-widgets <none> (no description available)
pn xlibmesa-dev <none> (no description available)
ii xlibmesa3 4.1.0-9 XFree86 version of Mesa 3D graphics
library
pn xlibosmesa-dev <none> (no description available)
ii xlibosmesa3 4.1.0-9 Mesa/XFree86 offscreen rendering library
Any idea what I might still be missing?
Carl Soderstrom
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