I find myself in the situation where I’d like to use a previous version of packages provided by Packman.
Due to some recent regression (in Mesa, it seems), my GPU is resetting from time to time, which translates to freezes requiring hard reboots.
More info here:
Some folks in the framework forums suggest that Mesa 25 is the problem, not the kernel/firmware as I initially suspected.
Now my Mesa comes from packman, not from the opensuse repos (AFAIK this is mandatory to keep things nice and proper, when you want non-free codecs widely available on your system).
So the question is: does anybody know if and how I can go back to Mesa (the packman version) 24.x?
@andrea.ippo Not possible, well if you had a Packman Build Service account you could pull/build the earlier version…did you bother to try the openSUSE version, at least you could possibly file a bug report?
Mesa 24 packages are still available here /history/20250225/tumbleweed/
You have to download the packages locally and better not wait since that repo will be gone with the next couple of updates.
You don’t need the packman version for codecs (there are none in Mesa).
You may need the packman version to have HW video decoding (depending on your GPU) but I think that is not a big deal anyway.
The local package rollback is a bit of work, I guess I’ll go back to the state that was kinda working for me - kernel-longterm somehow seems to trigger this issue much less.
Thanks for the explanation about packman and Mesa vs codecs, it wasn’t clear to me.
From reading here and on the framework forum, it seems like this problem needs wayland to occur. I’m not running that, but XFCE4 with x.org and thus have yet to see this problem on my FW16. So maybe (temporarily) switching the compositor could be used to avoid the problem.
