[Nouveau] GT 730 freeze : how do diagnose / debug ?

[Ilia Mirkin]

On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 7:50 AM, Vincent Vanackere
<vincent.vanackere at gmail.com> wrote:
> Alternatively if you know of a fanless graphic card model that would be able to drive 2 monitors at 2560x1440 with proper linux support, I'm interested ;-)

Anything made by AMD will likely work well on linux (and if it
doesn't, you should get something that closer resembles support). I
believe that there are some older model fanless HDMI + dual-link DVI
boards, but I'm not intimately familiar with the full line of AMD
offerings.

Separately, my recommendation of using xf86-video-nouveau stands (and
is, I might point out, entirely contrary to Ben's, who is the RedHat
"nouveau" guy and kernel module maintainer). However that won't fix in
any way any GL applications that "do bad things" (or cause nouveau to
do bad things). FWIW in my regular (non-nouveau-development-targeted)
use of Xorg with a variety of nvidia boards, currently the same GK208B
as you, and without any of the "modern" hotness, I've almost never
encountered hard hangs, despite using applications like chrome, etc
which do tend to make use of some GL capabilities.

Note that some GK208's, like mine, and some other boards as well, have
a very sad hang-due-to-fan situation. The bug is
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91413#c6, the hackpatch
is at https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/2015-March/020421.html
. It's been going on for literally years without being addressed.

Cheers,

  -ilia