[Nouveau] linux kernel 3.17, freeze on resume

[John H. Mountcastle]

I haven't received a digest from the group in over six days. Have I
fallen off the list somehow? Is there an online spot where I may go to
see if there was any response to my last message?
73 | *KB3KEY* | John | Mt.Airy,MD
On 10/25/2014 09:24 PM, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> Can you grab a copy of dmesg after resume? Can you try waiting ~2
> minutes to see if gdm will restart on its own (due to X dying)? In
> general, nouveau is less-than-great at resuming while 3d applications
> are running. This used to be rare, but now people have things like
> gnome-shell/etc which complicate matters.
>
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 10:25 AM, John Mountcastle <mtcstle at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> This may not be the proper place to raise this question but I've had little
>> luck elsewhere.
>> After trying again, unsuccessfully this time, to install the proprietary
>> NVIDIA driver, I've decided to focus my efforts on the open source Nouveau
>> driver. I've seen video drivers blamed for varying degrees of "freeze on
>> resume" but I'm not certain that's what I'm up against. When I resume after
>> hibernate, Plymouth fails then I get a completely inert machine. Lights are
>> on but keyboard nor mouse will elicit any response. If I go to another
>> machine and ssh to a shell and do, #systemctl restart gdm, a clean Xdisplay
>> pops up showing the log in screen. Now all is well. I'm running Gnome 3 on
>> kernel 3.17.1-302.fc21.x86_64 on an HP Elitebook 8440p with NVIDIA GT218N
>> [NVS 3100M] GPU, 8 GIG RAM and SSD. Can you help me help you to help me?
>> Do you suppose this is an as yet unreported driver bug or something else. It
>> may be interesting to note that about one time in five to seven, the machine
>> hangs on a reboot before getting anything at all onto the screen.
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