Bug 649361

Summary: Graphical session freezes with "GPU lockup" reported by nouveau; X process at 100%
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Alex G. <mr.nuke.me>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-nouveauAssignee: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 14CC: airlied, ajax, bskeggs, mr.nuke.me
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Description Alex G. 2010-11-03 15:56:54 UTC 
Description of problem:

After few hours of usage, desktop freezes, but mouse still active. Keyboard unresponsive, pressing CapsLock does not toggle the LED.

ssh is still usable.
Checking "dmesg |grep nouveau" reveals:
[26001.520820] [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon
along with a few more error messages

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.16-11.20100826git065576d.fc14.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always. freeze happens anywhere between 30 minutes and 6 hours of use, faster with desktop effects enabled (KDE).


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot and log in
2. Use desktop as usual
  
Actual results:
Display freezes; only mouse is operational.

Expected results:
No freeze.

Additional info:
Dual-9800GT machine,
dual-head, both monitors connected to primary GPU
Configured with RANDR, no xorg.conf file
using KDE
Comment 1 Alex G. 2010-11-03 15:58:06 UTC 
Created attachment 457483 [details]
output of dmesg |grep nouveau after freeze
Comment 2 Alex G. 2011-02-24 10:10:29 UTC 
Closing this, as nouveau is throwing more informative error messages.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 674636 ***