On Fri, September 12, 2014 9:23 am, Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 09:41:31AM -0400, zep wrote:
>>
>> On 09/12/2014 09:20 AM, Jan Taylor wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am running 64 bit CentOS 6.5, and have an intermittent problem where
>> the
>> > desktop crashes with the following error
>> >
>> > nouveau E[Xorg 6062]] failed to idle channel 0xccc0000
>> >
>> > The only route I have out of it is to power down then restart. It is
>> > intermittent, where some days it does not happen, to 2-3 times per
>> day.
>> > Have others had this experience and is there a solution?
>> >
> I have had this experience, with different distributions, basically RH
> based (Fedora, CentOS) Debian based (Lubuntu), and Arch.
>
> I always gave up and use the NVidia drivers--in CentOS' case, from Elrepo,
> which makes it quick and easy.
>
> http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php
>
Yes, it seems to be about time for Linux folks to stop liking NVIDIA (and
being stuck with proprietary binary drivers) and start liking more others
who provide more documentation about their card internals thus giving open
source teams enough information to maintain decently working open source
drivers.
[ - The one who favored ATI some 12 years back at the peak of Linux love
to NVIDIA ;-)]
Valeri
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Valeri Galtsev
Sr System Administrator
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
Phone: 773-702-4247
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