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

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Wed, 30 May 2012 20:55:49 -0700
rm.riches at jacob21819.net (Robert M. Riches Jr.) wrote:

> > 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.

Hi,

The unloading instructions are also in the wiki:
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/KernelModeSetting

Also a suspend-resume cycle has been said to help in recovering a
locked-up GPU.


Thanks,
pq