Bug#896979: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: Crash when undocking Lenovo P50

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2018-04-26 14:13 +0000, Sam Morris wrote:

> Followup-For: Bug #896979
> Control: tag -1 + patch
>
> This patch (taken from
> <https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=895060>) fixes
> the problem for me.
>
> (Note, I modified the patch to end the log message with a newline
> character).
>
>     From 5533658dd1afa31557d4ec4b469181f1d592d8c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>     From: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
>     Date: Sat, 20 May 2017 00:29:27 +1000
>     Subject: [PATCH] remove support for maxwell and higher

I don't think this is a good idea, unless upstream agrees to it.  I
would rather have us patch the xorg-server package to not use the
nouveau driver by default on such cards, as we do for Intel GPUs.

For the record, Fedora currently uses the modesetting driver on all
cards from GeForce 8 onwards[1].

Cheers,
       Sven


1. https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/xorg-x11-server/blob/master/f/0001-xfree86-use-modesetting-driver-by-default-on-GeForce.patch