Bug#696554: System freezes and lockups

[Mar Mel <marmel6942@yahoo.com>]

Wow, thanks so much for the speedy response!

I would really like to stay with gnome-shell on this system if possible. I have been playing HD videos to try to trigger the problem, but I believe it took either hours or days for the crash to occur originally.

I will use nouveaux full-time until I run into the issue again and report back right away.

Thanks.





----- Original Message -----
From: Steven Chamberlain <steven@pyro.eu.org>
To: Mar Mel <marmel6942@yahoo.com>; 696554@bugs.debian.org
Cc: 
Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2012 8:13 PM
Subject: Re: Bug#696554: System freezes and lockups

Hello,

Just an idea of mine, but if this issue only happens after logging in
(to gnome-shell?), perhaps you could try installing+logging into the
xfce4-desktop?  Just to see if that still triggers the nouveau bug.

And then if xfce4 is stable, you could perhaps try `mplayer -vo xv
somefile.avi` to see if that will trigger the problem instead.

Thanks!
Regards,
-- 
Steven Chamberlain
steven@pyro.eu.org