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



On Thu, 2018-04-26 at 18:45 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> 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/0
> 001-xfree86-use-modesetting-driver-by-default-on-GeForce.patch

Either solution sounds good to me! =D

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