[Discuss] nouveau E[DRM] GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

[Jerry Feldman]

On 02/22/2013 10:56 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> writes:
>
>> I'm running Fedora 18, but I have received similar messages on 17 and
>> 16, but only on shutdownon my system. I've seen a lot of reports online,
>> but no solutions. Here is a link to a Fedora bug report:
>> https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/faf/reports/51548/
>>
>> Obviously I have an NVIDIA graphics chip and am using nouveau driver.
>> The only issue I have with this is when I shutdown or reboot, I have to
>> press the power button. This comes late in the shutdown process after
>> all drives have been unmountedand MD has been deactivated, so at this
>> point it is a minor PIA.
> For me it's worse -- my system locks up in-use -- this is a MythTV
> Frontend in my office.  For me I can *sometimes* reboot the system via
> an ssh login, but often I have to hard-reset via power.  I have not been
> able to track it down, and have just resigned myself to frequent
> reboots.
One possible solution or workaround is to use the proprietary nVIDIA
driver rather than nouveau.
http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2013/fedora-18-nvidia-guide/



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