Bug#758460: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: [GeForce 6150 LE] complete system freeze as soon as GDM launches on kernel (>= 3.14)

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2014-12-17 19:55 +0100, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:

> 2014-12-17 20:37 GMT+02:00 Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>:
>> On 2014-08-17 20:33 +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>>
>>> Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
>>> Version: 1:1.0.10-1+b2
>>> Severity: important
>>>
>>> This Athlon 64 system complete freezes (requires a hard poweroff via the power switch)
>>> as soon as X 1.16 launches via GDM when booting from kernel 3.14 or 3.16-trunk.
>>
>> Does it help to boot with the nouveau.config=NvMSI=0 kernel parameter?
>> See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87361 for more
>> information on that topic.
>
> Yes, it does.  Thank you.  Could this exception be incorporated into the driver?

There's a patch in Ben Skegg's nouveau master branch[1].  It should go
into the stable kernels eventually, but that will take some time.

Cheers,
       Sven


1. http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~darktama/nouveau/commit/?id=b7387454bda64a16350fabee4d81bec3b8de8fa2