On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 21:47:55 +0100, Juha Jäykkä wrote: > > Or you may want to upgrade to the latest kernel in experimental first. > > This was easier, so I tried this. Some "progress": instead of crashing X, it > now crashes the GPU: > > [drm] nouveau 0000:05:00.0: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon > > and makes the machine completely unusable: open ssh connections freeze, new > sessions cannot be opened (it will connect to the port, but will freeze > before > authentication begins, during host authentication I think), virtual consoles > cannot be changed etc. > > The only things which work are: mpd keeps playing music intermittently (every > time I press a key, I hear a very short bit of music), tcp connections are > accepted, ICMP ECHO is replied to and magic SysRq key combinations work (so I > can sync && umount && reboot). > > Note that this is 2.6.38rc7, which was the newest a short while ago. It just > took me this long to figure out why the machine occassionally freezes. Well, > it does not really freeze, but you get the point. > > I installed 2.6.38-2-amd64 now and will see what happens with it before > building the experimental libgl1. > > I noticed there is a newer X, too: any point in checking if installing that > helps? > > Oh, and one more point: this lockup seems to happen much less frequently if I > do not run opengl apps full-screen but in a window (which might be > full-screen > size, though). > Hi Juha,
is there any progress with newer kernels or mesa? If you still have issues I suggest reporting this upstream to the nouveau developers (at bugs.freedesktop.org). If you do that, let us know the bug number for tracking. Thanks, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org