Bug#842971: loading nouveau causes screen to become unresponsive

[Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>]

hi,

On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 9:06 PM, Karl-Philipp Richter <krichter@posteo.de> wrote:
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> Am 03.11.2016 um 12:15 schrieb Mathieu Malaterre:
>> Why src:linux and not simply the binary package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau ?
> I already did at
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=806684 and have been
> requested to file this against the kernel.

I see.

>> Are you able to reproduce that directly from one of the virtual tty so
>> as to copy/paste the actual error log.
> Since there's nothing I can do after `modprobe nouveau` because the
> screen is all white and changing tty doesn't work as described, I don't
> know how to provide the error logs. I assumed that `reportbug` would
> include them. I'm happy to add them if you assist me.

Here is what I would do:

#1. Have an ssh connection ready. Right after doing your `modprobe
nouveau`, run `dmesg` from the ssh connection and copy/paste.

#2. All logs are stored in /var/log/syslog. Then they are archived in
gz form. So you should be able to do something like `zgrep nouveau
/var/log/syslog*.gz`. It may be more difficult to search through this,
so I would suggest #1 first if you can.