[Nouveau] Assistance in tracking a kernel/nouveau error

[Ilia Mirkin]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:59 PM, ~Stack~ <i.am.stack at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/10/2014 05:14 PM, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
>> You might mention what hardware you have (lspci output for the nvidia
>> card... just need the chip name), and what kernels the various distros
>> are using. (I think that Ubuntu/Fedora tend not to make frankenkernels
>> like RHEL does, so the version has some sort of correlation to actual
>> upstream versions.) That might help identify potential issues that
>> were fixed.
>
> Greetings,
> Here is the lspci info. I will try and grab the kernel versions from the
> discs tomorrow (I left them at work).
> Thanks!
> ~Stack~
>
>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108GLM [Quadro
>> 1000M] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])


GF108 (NVC1) had some issues for a kernel release or two (3.11 and
3.12 iirc). The fix was backported to the -stable kernels, but who
knows whether the livecd you're trying has the relevant fixes or not
:(

  -ilia