Messages in this thread | | | From | James <> | Subject | Re: nouveau: System crashes with NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT | Date | Mon, 19 Aug 2019 09:55:20 -0400 |
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On 2019-08-18 11:27 a.m., Ondrej Zary wrote: > On Saturday 17 August 2019 14:50:33 Alex Dewar wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm getting frequent system crashes (every few hours or so) and it seems >> that the nouveau driver is causing the issue (dmesg output below). I see it >> with both v5.2.8 and the v4.19 LTS kernel. Sometimes the system >> completely freezes and sometimes seemingly just the nouveau driver goes >> down. The screen freezes and colours stream across it. Often after I >> reboot the BIOS logo is mangled too until the first modeset. The crash >> seems to be happening in nv50_fb_intr() in nv50.c. >> >> I'm not sure if this is related, but the system now often freezes on >> suspend or resume since I switched from using the old (recently >> abandoned) proprietry NVIDIA drivers, again both with 5.2 and 4.19 >> kernels. Blacklisting the nouveau driver doesn't seem to fix it however, >> though I guess the graphics card could still be causing issues in some >> other way? I never had problems with suspend and resume before. >> >> Any suggestions about how I could debug this further? > > Is it really a software problem (does it still work fine with proprietary > driver)? > These nVidia chips are known to fail and corrupt BIOS logo suggests that. >
It's interesting the proprietary driver still seems to have support for series 6 and series 7 (just series 8 became unsupported).
I would try a live iso with a recent kernel.
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