From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pekka Paalanen Subject: Re: still seeking way to recover card after cursor disappears or card locks up Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 20:06:28 +0300 Message-ID: <20120531200628.149be72b@farn.lan> References: <20120531035549.BBAEB23450@one.localnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20120531035549.BBAEB23450-QrSMeLIW4KwXpj0+iOhflA@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nouveau-bounces+gcfxn-nouveau=m.gmane.org-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org Errors-To: nouveau-bounces+gcfxn-nouveau=m.gmane.org-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org To: "Robert M. Riches Jr." Cc: nouveau-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org List-Id: nouveau.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 30 May 2012 20:55:49 -0700 rm.riches-BRax14MUi1YI9MI5TlNUSA@public.gmane.org (Robert M. Riches Jr.) wrote: > > I very doubt that rmmod and modprobe will help you in any way since > > nouveau is KMS module and it stays in use the whole time. Something > > will be broken anyway. But you can try and see what's happening, it > > will not brick your card. > > Arvydas, thank you very much for that info/advice. You were > 100% right that rmmod refused to remove the nouveau module. Hi, The unloading instructions are also in the wiki: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/KernelModeSetting Also a suspend-resume cycle has been said to help in recovering a locked-up GPU. Thanks, pq