Bug#578056: EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop.

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2011-05-06 18:45 +0200, Stefan Schwarzer wrote:

> Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
> Version: 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1
> Followup-For: Bug #578056

Please send any further followups to bug #610987 instead.

> My kernel version and hardware differ from those of the original reporter, 
> but symptoms are the same.

This does not necessarily mean that it's the same problem.

> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation GT218 [NVS 3100M] [10de:0a6c] (rev a2)

This is one of the cards that suffer from
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/26980 aka http://bugs.debian.org/610987.

You may want to try kernel 2.6.39-rc5 from experimental.  If you run
into http://bugs.debian.org/625279, wait for 2.6.39-rc6 to become
available.  In the meantime, disabling acceleration should work around
the hangs, e.g. boot with nouveau.noaccel=1 kernel parameter.

Regards,
        Sven