From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03A37C3A5A0 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2019 14:15:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D43E1206BB for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2019 14:15:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727029AbfHSOPI (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Aug 2019 10:15:08 -0400 Received: from 195-159-176-226.customer.powertech.no ([195.159.176.226]:33148 "EHLO blaine.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726751AbfHSOPF (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Aug 2019 10:15:05 -0400 Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hziR4-00148V-2L for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2019 16:15:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: James Subject: Re: nouveau: System crashes with NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 09:55:20 -0400 Message-ID: <03ec19b7-0a54-39cc-5bb2-1b09bb8fccc6@lockie.ca> References: <20190817125033.p3vdkq3xzz45aidz@alex-chromebook> <201908181727.04076.linux@zary.sk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 In-Reply-To: <201908181727.04076.linux@zary.sk> Content-Language: en-US Cc: nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.