nouveau driver locks up with 4.11 kernel

[Michal Hocko]

On Mon 14-08-17 15:27:20, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 3:18 PM, Michal Hocko <mhocko at kernel.org> wrote:
[...]
> > nouveau 0000:03:00.0: fifo: channel 6 [mpv/vo[3535]] kick timeout
> > nouveau: mpv/vo[3535]:00000000:0000906f: detach gr failed, -110
> 
> Are you using mpv in conjunction with the GL video output and
> VDPAU-based acceleration? That will kill nouveau. For VDPAU, I
> recommend mplayer.

Well, I am using mplayer package and vo=sdl. Which video output should I
try instead? Btw. xine seems to be using VDPAU as well, yet it doesn't
lockup the whole X session. The videou output doesn't work properly
either but at least I am able to kill xine and still have the session.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs