nouveau freezing desktop - Ubuntu 24.04 - NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M

[Flavio Bagnato]

Hello,

I recently installed Ubuntu 24.04 on a MacBook Pro (Mid-2010) running a
NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M adapter.

Unfortunately the computer is constantly freezing.

If I pass "nomodeset" to grub, the nouveau driver is not used and the
computer does not freeze so it seems to be related to the nouveau driver.

I am wanting to know if there are any parameters I can pass to nouveau to
resolve the freezing.

I have tried temporarily replacing nomodeset with nouveau.noaccel=1 then
with nouveau.nofbaccel=1 but both caused the booting to freeze.

I have also tried temporarily replacing nomodeset with nouveau.modeset=0 to
disable nouveau but got a blank screen whilst booting (I've seen this blank
screen reported by others on the web).

I should be reporting a bug I assume but when the computer freezes I have
to turn the computer off and therefore dmesg is not an option to provide
logs.

I have noticed in dmesg however 2 messages that read:

nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: 00100000 [] ch 3 [001fa70000 gnome-shell[1509]]
subc 3 class 8597 mthd 1304 data 1d1c1b1a

followed by......

nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: DATA_ERROR 00000012 [RT_LINEAR_WITH_ZETA]

These 2 messages are repeated regularly.

Is there anything I can do (like pass any parameters) that may resolve the
computer freezing?

Regards,

Flavio
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