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

[Robert M. Riches Jr.]

> Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 13:24:55 +0200
> From: Arvydas Sidorenko <asido4 at gmail.com>
> To: "Robert M. Riches Jr." <rm.riches at jacob21819.net>
> Cc: nouveau at lists.freedesktop.org
>
> 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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>
> 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.

Arvydas, thank you very much for that info/advice.  You were
100% right that rmmod refused to remove the nouveau module.

Is there any other way to force a reset of a graphics card or
driver module other than OS shutdown/reboot?

Thanks,

Robert Riches