From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 803B3C3A589 for ; Sun, 18 Aug 2019 15:29:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5566120B7C for ; Sun, 18 Aug 2019 15:29:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726548AbfHRP3O (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Aug 2019 11:29:14 -0400 Received: from hosting.gsystem.sk ([212.5.213.30]:43854 "EHLO hosting.gsystem.sk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725786AbfHRP3O (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Aug 2019 11:29:14 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.253] (rev-81-92-251-195.radiolan.sk [81.92.251.195]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hosting.gsystem.sk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D8DD47A03D5; Sun, 18 Aug 2019 17:29:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Ondrej Zary To: Alex Dewar Subject: Re: nouveau: System crashes with NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 17:27:03 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 Cc: nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20190817125033.p3vdkq3xzz45aidz@alex-chromebook> In-Reply-To: <20190817125033.p3vdkq3xzz45aidz@alex-chromebook> X-KMail-QuotePrefix: > MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201908181727.04076.linux@zary.sk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 17 August 2019 14:50:33 Alex Dewar wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm getting frequent system crashes (every few hours or so) and it seems > that the nouveau driver is causing the issue (dmesg output below). I see it > with both v5.2.8 and the v4.19 LTS kernel. Sometimes the system > completely freezes and sometimes seemingly just the nouveau driver goes > down. The screen freezes and colours stream across it. Often after I > reboot the BIOS logo is mangled too until the first modeset. The crash > seems to be happening in nv50_fb_intr() in nv50.c. > > I'm not sure if this is related, but the system now often freezes on > suspend or resume since I switched from using the old (recently > abandoned) proprietry NVIDIA drivers, again both with 5.2 and 4.19 > kernels. Blacklisting the nouveau driver doesn't seem to fix it however, > though I guess the graphics card could still be causing issues in some > other way? I never had problems with suspend and resume before. > > Any suggestions about how I could debug this further? Is it really a software problem (does it still work fine with proprietary driver)? These nVidia chips are known to fail and corrupt BIOS logo suggests that. -- Ondrej Zary