At FSF, we've been having trouble with Nouveau related kernel errors and freezes which require a reboot for about 2 years now. The issue mostly occurs when doing video conferencing in a browser plus recording that using OBS (Open Broadcast Studio). We've found all the configurations we've tested to crash/freeze from about once a day to several times a day. This is mainly a problem when we are live streaming our annual LibrePlanet conference, which is happening next weekend. More info: Our kernels don't load any nonfree firmware blobs. Currently they run Trisquel 11. We've tried various Nvidia cards, about 3 different generations. For video conferencing, we use webrtc through BigBlueButton (versions with older free MongoDB) on chromium (it's webrtc video has been more performant than mozilla based browsers). I've attached a kernel log of an example of a freeze. At the end of the log we could ssh in, but the display was frozen. Any tips to help solve this are welcome. Eg: what model or generation of cards you think is more stable, or any software versions or configurations that are more likely to be stable, or any general ideas. Related note: Trisquel 11 just added support for running a lot of older amd GPUs without loading nonfree firmware, so we are testing their stability now.
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