Re: Nouveau, libgallium?
However, my opinion might the changing fast, given that nouveau
crashed again an hour ago:
```
180647.691193] nouveau 0000:0c:00.0: fifo: fault 00 [READ] at
000000010f210000 engine 00 [gr] client 05 [GPC0/PE_1] reason 00 [PDE]
on channel 7 [00ff55c000 gnome-shell[2390]]
[180647.691203] nouveau 0000:0c:00.0:
fifo:000000:0007:[gnome-shell[2390]] rc scheduled
[180647.691207] nouveau 0000:0c:00.0: fifo:000000: rc scheduled
[180647.691215] nouveau 0000:0c:00.0:
fifo:000000:0007:0007:[gnome-shell[2390]] errored - disabling channel
[180647.691219] nouveau 0000:0c:00.0: Xorg[2277]: channel 7 killed!
[180647.705504] show_signal_msg: 46 callbacks suppressed
[180647.705506] gnome-shell[2390]: segfault at 565800000000 ip
00007f800dc42e3d sp 00007ffddcd54880 error 4 in
libgallium-26.1.2-1.so[c42e3d,7f800d0e2000+19ab000] likely on CPU 22
(core 6, socket 0)
[180647.705514] Code: 24 48 8b 14 24 4c 8d 05 09 81 e8 00 be 01 00 00
00 49 8b 5c 24 08 49 8b 6c 24 10 48 8d 04 80 45 8b 0c 24 48 8b 3d 53
93 09 02 <4c> 8b 2c c2 48 8d 04 2b 48 8d 15 0c 54 f0 00 4d 8b 75 28 50
48 8d
```
Cheers!
On Thu, Jul 2, 2026 at 5:54 PM Boyan Penkov <boyan.penkov@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That's the thing -- I'm on stable-bpo, which has linux 7.0, and the
> module did not compile out of the gate for me when I tried the update.
>
> Either way, I'd rather anticipate the problem of getting off
> nvidia-driver now on this machine.
>
> Cheers!
>
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2026 at 1:50 AM Alexander V. Makartsev <avbetev@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 7/1/26 06:30, Boyan Penkov wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 30, 2026 at 4:44 PM Alexander V. Makartsev
> > <avbetev@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 7/1/26 00:12, Boyan Penkov wrote:
> >
> > Hello folks,
> >
> > I saw another issue that seems to point to mesa and nouveau,
> >
> > Is there a specific reason to use nouveau driver?
> > It always performed like a Proof-of-Concept for me, lacking in hardware support and having stability issues.
> > Your VGA (Quadro K2200 is it?) is supported by proprietary Nvidia driver, so my suggestion is to install it from Debian repo and see if your stability issues go away.
> > This way you will also check if VGA itself is working fine and doesn't have any hardware defects, which could be hidden and be the source of sporadic stability issues.
> >
> > Hello Alexander -- yes, fair point, and I don't know how
> > unconventional my decision is here, but this card is getting
> > increasingly old, barely supported by the official driver,
> >
> > It is either supported or not. It looks like [1] the version 580.xx will be the final version for your VGA.
> > Version 550.xx, which is available for Debian stable [2], supports it.
> > If you are on Trixie and use kernel version 6.12, then nvidia-driver version 550.xx should give you the time until the next Debian release, which is usually happen in two years.
> >
> > and I don't
> > want to have to mess with guessing which Nvidia driver update will
> > finally fail to boot period
> >
> > If something will happen with the new 6.12.xx kernel update and nvidia-driver DKMS module would fail to compile, you will know about it from the console output.
> > Even if you ignore the errors and reboot to the black screen on tty7, you will still have access to tty1 (Ctrl+Alt+F1) console and the way to sort it out.
> >
> > (https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#data-center-d13), so I
> > am steering away from nvidia-driver.
> >
> > So my guiding light here is for this machine, forget the proprietary
> > driver and use the FOSS one, but this seems to have shot me in the
> > foot...
> >
> > The choice is yours of course, but getting a stable and performant system for at least two years, until the next Debian stable release, seems like a no-brainer to me.
> >
> >
> > [1] https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/drivers/details/273196/
> > [2] https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Debian_13_.22Trixie.22
> >
> > --
> >
> > With kindest regards, Alexander.
> >
> > Debian - The universal operating system
> > https://www.debian.org
>
>
>
> --
> Boyan Penkov
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