[Nouveau] still seeking way to recover card after cursor disappears or card locks up

[Arvydas Sidorenko]

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Robert M. Riches Jr.
<rm.riches at jacob21819.net> wrote:
> Is it considered safe to rmmod nouveau and then modprobe it back
> again?  I have a diskless system with a different card I could try
> that with to gain confidence if the list says it's safe to do that.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robert Riches
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On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Robert M. Riches Jr.
<rm.riches at jacob21819.net> wrote:
> Is it considered safe to rmmod nouveau and then modprobe it back
> again?  I have a diskless system with a different card I could try
> that with to gain confidence if the list says it's safe to do that.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robert Riches
> _______________________________________________
> Nouveau mailing list
> Nouveau at lists.freedesktop.org
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau

I very doubt that rmmod and modprobe will help you in any way since
nouveau is KMS module and it stays in use the whole time. Something
will be broken anyway. But you can try and see what's happening, it
will not brick your card.