Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nouveau loads but freezes later, nvidia won't load

[Grant]

>>>> I've been using the nouveau video driver for a while, but lately video
>>>> has been freezing with X at 100% CPU and the only way out seems to be
>>>> ssh'ing in and rebooting.
>>>
>>> Not that it will help with your bug, but I'm curious to know what video
>>> hardware you're using.  I had the same problem with my ancient nv34 card,
>>> which got fixed a few weeks ago in Linus's git kernel.
>>
>> I'm not sure of the actual chip, but I get this from lspci -v:
>>
>> nVidia Corporation C77 [GeForce 8100 / nForce 720a]
>>
>> It's an onboard chip on my motherboard.  Can you tell me in what
>> version of the Linux kernel you found the problem to be solved?
>
> In my particular case it was this commit, but I get the impression that
> there
> are still unfixed bugs that cause very similar symptoms:
>
> commit 3ba6462355c1c69dde58739a871d13bbb993e2e3
> Author: Francisco Jerez
> Date:   Sat Aug 28 17:56:33 2010 +0200
>
>    drm/nouveau: Take fence spinlock before reading the last sequence.
>
>    It fixes a race between the TTM delayed work queue and the GEM IOCTLs
>    (fdo bug 29583) uncovered by the BKL removal.
>
> That patch was made on Aug 28, so Linus probably committed it in early
> September, maybe 2.6.36-rc3 or thereabouts.
>
> If you're serious about testing the nouveau driver I suggest you try the
> latest nouveau kernel sources from here:
>
> git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/nouveau/linux-2.6
>
> I just pulled the latest changes from that repository, approx 40 changesets,
> and not one of them applies to my poor old forgotten NV34 chip, so I'm
> losing
> interest in nouveau at this point.  But your hardware is much newer and it
> may
> be worth your while to test the latest changes.  It's certainly easy to do.

Thanks a lot Walt.

- Grant