For me, the situation has significantly improved with the latest Ubuntu
16.04: for "normal" operation, I no longer need "nouveau.config=NvMSI=0"
as kernel boot parameter.

I still see that things are not yet perfect:
  * moving the mouse over the window top bar occasionally shows a black and 
white pattern in this bar (which disappears, once the mouse has completely left 
the window).
  * recently, I had a freeze again after a long time without freezing -- 
opening a large utf-8 encoded "csv" file with a (wrong) "utf-16" BOM in 
"libreoffice calc" (leading to lots of nonsense characters).
Thus, while the problem is not yet fixed completely, there has been significant 
improvements (at least for my card).

Maybe, the improvements result from a side effect of having used the
Nvidia proprietary driver in the meantime. I have seen a report
reporting something like "nouveau gives problems - switching to Nvidia;
Nvidia gives problems - switching back to nouveau - nouveau problems
have disappeared". I have no idea how something like that could be
possible - but my case looks similar.

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