Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 06:10:57PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 02/19/2011 05:32 PM, Rob Owens wrote:
> >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.
> >
>
> Is this a new computer? (Had something similar happen on my wife's
> new PC. memtest86+ showed lots of errors, and removing one of the
> DIMMs made everything work properly.)
>
It's an old computer, but new to me. I will run memtest86+ tonight.
Thanks for the idea.
For anyone following along, this is a MythTV frontend machine that had
Lenny
installed. I moved the hard drive into a newer machine (1.7GHz P4), and
upgraded to Squeeze.
-Rob
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