Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 03:28:23PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 09:10:34PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> > There's not much hope if you intend to stay with Squeeze. If you're not
> > brave enough to blindly upgrade your kernel and the whole X stack to
> > sid, I would recommend trying a Live CD like Knoppix 6.4 or Grml 10.12
> > first. Both come with kernel 2.6.36 and a newer nouveau snapshot from
> > August 2010.
> >
> I tried with a squeeze live CD and got similar results. I wasn't able
> to check the logs, though, because the whole machine was locked up. I
> did manage to get a rainbow screen and a real mouse pointer.
>
> I am downloading Knoppix 6.4.4 now.
>
Same results with Knoppix 6.4.4. Rainbow striped screen, mouse pointer,
and unresponsive system. I couldn't even ctrl-alt-f1 to get to a
terminal.
-Rob
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