From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970
From: bugzilla-daemon-CC+yJ3UmIYqDUpFQwHEjaQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: [Bug 75813] New: [NV40] X hangs, system unresponsive
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 20:10:42 +0000
Message-ID:
Priority
medium
Bug ID
75813
Assignee
nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org
Summary
[NV40] X hangs, system unresponsive
QA Contact
xorg-team@lists.x.org
Severity
major
Classification
Unclassified
OS
Linux (All)
Reporter
marco@hulten.org
Hardware
x86-64 (AMD64)
Status
NEW
Version
7.7 (2011)
Component
Driver/nouveau
Product
xorg
Once every day or so my system practically hangs (gets extremely unresponsive;
X unusable; only SysRq magic working) while using Xorg with the nouveau driver
(version 1.0.10).
I am running Debian GNU/Linux testing (jessie) with
$ uname -r
3.13-1-amd64
$ lspci | grep VGA
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV40 [GeForce 6800
GT/GTO/Ultra] (rev a2)
This problem did not occur when I ran Debian stable (with nouveau).
When the system (practically) hangs, I get messages like this:
... GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon
nouveau E [Xorg] failed to idle channel 0xcccc0000 [ ...