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this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2023
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There's been some oddball nasty issues with Mesa recently. SteamVR causing the driver to crash (and the display just won't come back :/) H265 encoding causing driver crashing, just weird stuff. Simple things like Wayland work great, but if you have even a slightly unique workload you may run into major issues
I've had lost of issues with SteamVR too but not with anything else. I suspect those issues are actually SteamVR's fault tho because it's pretty buggy on Linux in general.
Nah, straight up driver crashes are on Mesa's side, not SteamVR's. No userland software should be able to permanently bring down your driver.