>From my experience, if you are using NVidia graphics cards you should probably change over to the proprietary NVidia drivers. They have fewer issues and better performance. Here are a couple of links on how to do this. We've had people who have had success with each of these 2 different methods: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/instructions-on-how-to-make-nvidia-gtx645-graphics-card-run-using-nvidia-in-rhel-6-5-a-4175500802/ http://rodgersnotes.wordpress.com/2013/07/07/installing-nvidia-drivers-on-redhat-6-4-and-removing-nouveau/ Stephen Lewis Stephen.Lewis at IDT.com Computer Operations Support, ADC -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of zep Sent: Friday, September 12, 2014 9:42 AM To: centos at centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] nouveau crash on centos 6.5 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? > > Thanks in advance for any help > > Best wishes > Jan > _________________________ http://markmail.org/message/v7lmivgrosja75lp#query:+page:1+mid:apvyygkt55yrzu4i+state:results suggests it's also been an issue for ubuntu, towards the end of that thread there are some suggestions for fixes (kernel parameters to set) _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos