Screen freezes after some minutes with the nouveau driver

[Joachim Backes]

On 11/07/2009 08:20 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 07:43 +0100, Joachim Backes wrote:
>> On 11/07/2009 03:12 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 16:01 +0100, Joachim Backes wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure if this has already been reported: I'm running F12 with the
>>>> nouveau driver, and after locking the screen with the screensaver
>>>> applet, it takes some minutes until the system freezes completely (mouse
>>>> cannot be moved, no keyboard input is possible). Only a hard reset
>>>> helps. This happens since 2 days.
>>>>
>>>> Anybody has seen this? All actual F12 updates are applied.
>>>
>>> Please post the _exact_ revisions of the following packages you had in
>>> use when you saw this:
>>>
>>> kernel
>>> xorg-x11-drv-nouveau
>>> xorg-x11-server
>>> libdrm
>>>
>>> thanks.
>>>
>>
>> kernel-PAE-2.6.31.5-117.fc12.i686
>> xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.15-17.20091105gite1c2efd.fc12.i686
>> xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.1-6.fc12.i686
>> libdrm-2.4.15-4.fc12.i686
>
> Please try again with server 1.7.1-7 and kernel 2.6.31.5-122. Both of
> these should be on your friendly local Rawhide mirror. Of course, reboot
> after installing :)
>

Hi Adam,

I did it, and all works great now.

Thank you.

Regards

-- 

Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes


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