[17:50] <karolherbst> please backport https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/74479a99ecf18fdfdafd033b5efd8d785dd12c28 to 18.04 or either not default to modesetting for all drivers
[17:55] <tjaalton> missing context
[17:55] <karolherbst> xorg crashes on out of VRAM with nouveau
[17:56] <karolherbst> but it's a glamor bug all along
[17:56] <karolherbst> we have some bug reports on that one
[17:56] <karolherbst> eg this one: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110500
[17:56] <ubottu> Freedesktop bug 110500 in Drivers/DRI/nouveau "X-Server crashes - GL error: GL_OUT_OF_MEMORY in glTexSubImage" [Major,Resolved: notourbug]
[17:57] <tjaalton> ok
[17:58] <karolherbst> thanks
[18:01] <tjaalton> that commit is a month old, so every version is affected
[18:02] <karolherbst> yeah, probably
[18:04] <karolherbst> tjaalton: actually, 16.04 should be fine as it doesn't force the mdoesetting DDX, but everything newer should be. I think other drivers might run into that issue as well, allthough they should have better handling of out of memory situations
[18:07] <tjaalton> karolherbst: right, at this point i'm mostly concerned about 19.04 and -hwe-18.04
[18:08] <tjaalton> and if there's noone on launchpad who can reproduce it, there's not much hope getting that through to updates
[18:11] <karolherbst> I see. Allthough I imagine that should be fairly easy to reproduce on given hardware. I would be only able to check that on Monday the earliest. And even then I would have to setup a machine with ubuntu on it. :/
[18:15] <karolherbst> tjaalton: I found this debian bug report, which seems essentially to be the same issue: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=910075
[18:15] <ubottu> Debian bug 910075 in evolution "evolution crash on interact" [Important,Open]
[18:26] <tjaalton> the patch to use modesetting on geforce is from fedora btw
[18:27] <tjaalton> gf8 and up
[18:29] <karolherbst> yeah, I know
[18:29] <tjaalton> stock 18.04 didn't have it, only 18.10 and up plus 18.04.2 with hwe backport
[18:30] <karolherbst> ohh, interesting
[18:30] <tjaalton> so perhaps only testing on 19.04 would be enough, then silently include it in the next backport
[18:30] <karolherbst> I am not entirely sure it's a good idea to force enable it and it might make sense to have a simplier way to switch the ddx
[18:31] <karolherbst> but I kind of see the general issue with X here :/