nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

[Rob Owens <rowens@ptd.net>]

On my Squeeze system, the nouveau driver isn't working.  dmesg shows
this message:  

GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

lspci shows my video card as this:

VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)

I do have an onboard video port that I'm not using.  Not sure if that's
messing things up or not.  Any advice?  I see several hits on Google,
but I haven't found a solution yet.

I'm trying to make nouveau work.  The proprietary nvidia driver will be
my last resort.

-Rob