Ok thanks, I'll keep to it for now. Would you like me to (try to) fill a bug report report for that? By the way, if you come to work on that bug, I'll be glad to experiment your solution on my machine :)
Caocoa > On 18.05.2015 01:46, Ilia Mirkin wrote: >> Your errors are most likely due to: >> >> [ 2.421428] nouveau [ PFB][0000:01:00.0] RAM size: 1975398418 >> MiB >> >> I'm guessing you don't *actually* have 1.9PB of VRAM. At least one >> other person with a GM108 was seeing a similar issue. You're getting a >> bunch of other failed reads, looks like we're somehow not bringing the >> card up properly. The most immediate "fix" is to just disable nouveau >> entirely -- boot with nouveau.modeset=0. >> >> Cheers, >> >> -ilia >> > > > As the IGPs "tend" to "steal" system memory: > > [ 21.733864] nouveau [ PFB][0000:01:00.0] RAM type: stolen system > memory > [ 21.733883] nouveau [ PFB][0000:01:00.0] RAM size: 256 MiB > [ 21.787222] nouveau [ DRM] VRAM: 256 MiB > > can we reverse the process in this case, and "steal" a few GB of VRAM for > a system memory? > I mean there are more than enough. > > > _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list Nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau