[R-sig-Fedora] rgl.snapshot only captures a small portion what's visible in the RGL device window on CentOS 7

[Wittner, Ben, Ph.D.]

Tom,

I thought about filing a bug report with Nouveau, but it seems that working directly with Nouveau is well beyond my capabilities.

I have no idea how to do most of the stuff Nouveau says to do in their troubleshooting page. And for the small minority of things that I think I might be able to figure out, each one would take me hours of reading and experimentation and begging for help. I'm not an OS guy.

And also, I don't think I can afford to be frequently installing and uninstalling drivers because I need my machine to be stable for my real work.

Nouveau's bug reporting page says "If you are using packages from your distribution and are unable/unwilling to test the latest versions of all the pieces of nouveau, send the bug reports to your distribution and not directly to us." So I thought I should submit the bug report to CentOS.

I'm hoping that it will be relatively easy for someone at CentOS to reproduce the bug and then take it from there, probably working with Nouveau.

-Ben

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Callaway [mailto:tcallawa at redhat.com] 

> I guess I'll file a bug in the CentOS Bug Tracker so that the nouveau driver might get fixed. I'll also post to R-help so someone with the same problem who only searches R-help and not this SIG will see the solution.

Awesome. If you have the cycles, I'm sure the CentOS people would appreciate it if you ran through the nouveau troubleshooting first:

http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Bugs/

You might consider also filing a bug with the Nouveau upstream, as the CentOS people may not be experts with that driver, but the upstream certainly will be. Keep in mind that they may want you to test the latest version of the driver first.




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