[Discuss] nouveau E[DRM] GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> writes:

> I'm running Fedora 18, but I have received similar messages on 17 and
> 16, but only on shutdownon my system. I've seen a lot of reports online,
> but no solutions. Here is a link to a Fedora bug report:
> https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/faf/reports/51548/
>
> Obviously I have an NVIDIA graphics chip and am using nouveau driver.
> The only issue I have with this is when I shutdown or reboot, I have to
> press the power button. This comes late in the shutdown process after
> all drives have been unmountedand MD has been deactivated, so at this
> point it is a minor PIA.

For me it's worse -- my system locks up in-use -- this is a MythTV
Frontend in my office.  For me I can *sometimes* reboot the system via
an ssh login, but often I have to hard-reset via power.  I have not been
able to track it down, and have just resigned myself to frequent
reboots.

-derek

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