[CentOS] nouveau crash on centos 6.5

Fri Sep 12 14:23:08 UTC 2014
Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com>

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


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