Re: Debian 11, nouveau, Nvidia GF100GL Quadro 4000 - monitors freeze after a few minutes
On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 12:28:55PM +0200, Roger Price wrote:
> A Dell Precision 7500 with an Nvidia NVC0 (Fermi) GF100GL Quadro 4000 video
> card and two iiyama B2783QSU monitors, Xfce and nouveau: very nice indeed
> when it comes up, but after 3-30 minutes the monitors freeze and lock up. No
> reaction to any keyboard or mouse activity. I have to ssh to the box to
> restart it.
>
> I tried telinit 3 followed by telinit 5, but this leaves me with two blank
> monitors, receiving a signal (monitor's blue light).
>
> xscreensaver is not installed, neither is any other program calling itself
> "screensaver".
>
> I tried swapping the card with an identical GF100GL card and got the same
> freeze. I submitted Bug#992256 with dmesg, Xorg.0.log and lspci -k -vv -s
> 03:00.0.
>
> Roger
>
This might be one of those cases where a fresh install using the unofficial
non-free media which includes firmware would be useful. The firmware
detection is much improved.
I suspect this might also be a case where you just have to have the Nvidia
proprietary drivers for that particular model of card. I did have this on
a laptop at one time which would not play nicely with nouveau.
If you do end up having to install the Nvidia proprietary drivers: I've found
it useful in the past to do a minimal text only install - no gui, no
graphics. Then install build essential and whatever the prerequisites are for
the Nvidia driver. Build the appropriate driver and only after that use
tasksel (as root/root equivalent) to install a desktop environment. Only
by ensuring there are no nouveau libraries will this work in my experience.
The very best of luck. Hope this helps. All the very best, as ever,
Andy Cater
Andy C
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