Can confirm that nouveau.noaccel=1 solved the lockup in my desktop with "GeForce 6150SE nForce 430". But if you need some graphical effects or things like that, forget! You'll have an system 'not bricked', but really ugly.
I'm not using Ubuntu anymore, but last year (with another distro) I give nouveau a try and the same problem that I used to have in fresh Ubuntu install 4 years back showed. This glitch in nouveau is very annoying. NVIDIA proprietary driver (304xx-lts) don't have a good performance with glx (i.e. if you have compton and some little desktop effects, the delay is huge). Same machine, same NVIDIA driver, but this time with Windows: the desktop don't have such a poor performance. Nothing is perfect... I have to buy a new computer anyway. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-nouveau in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1181902 Title: Nouveau driver glitch on Ubuntu 13.04 will cause system to freeze under certain conditions Status in xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Hi, This only happens to Ubuntu 13.04, as my GeForce 6150SE card was working fine for Ubuntu 12.10. The Nouveau driver glitch will cause my whole system to freeze under certain conditions. I first get my system freeze when starting virtualbox, which is installed from the offical Oracle virtualbox PPA. Duplicated several times -- Freshly boot into X, then start virtualbox from within xterm via "virtualbox &", 2 seconds later my whole system freeze up. Google search indicated that it might be cause by the offical Oracle virtualbox PPA, so I followed the advice to switch to the offical Ubuntu virtualbox from the software center, but get into system freeze doing exactly the same thing. Duplicated several times as well. I was about to conclude that it is the virtualbox's problem when I suddenly remember that I've got into such system freeze before doing something entirely different, because the symptom is exactly the same. So I tried again -- "startx -- :1" to get me into another X session, and quit. Yes, then and there, I get into such system freeze again. The symptom is that the display turned black, then a random pattern tiled across the whole screen. Installing the closed source additional driver (nvidia) to replace the Nouveau driver solve the problem, which in turn proved that my suspicion was right -- it *is* the Nouveau driver that is causing the problem. Thanks PS. Comparing with the previous Xorg.1.log, the lines that didn't get output are: (II) NOUVEAU(0): EDID vendor "ACR", prod id 426 (II) NOUVEAU(0): Using EDID range info for horizontal sync (II) NOUVEAU(0): Using EDID range info for vertical refresh (II) NOUVEAU(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines: . . . The whole unloading part (filtered by "sed 's/\[[^]]*]//'") of my previous Xorg.1.log is at http://paste.debian.net/5260/, the whole un- filtered file is at http://paste.debian.net/5261/. Here is my GeForce 6150SE card: $ lspci | grep VGA 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] (rev a2) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/+bug/1181902/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
