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nilesOien

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From: Boulder, CO, USA

Registered: 2015-05-08

Posts: 80

Intermittently freezing X server

I re-installed Arch on somewhat aging hardware and I'm finding that the X server freezes up intermittently. lspci shows this card :

02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G96CGL [Quadro FX 580] (rev a1)

After the display freezes I can log in remotely and dmesg shows, in part, this :

[   62.941704] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: gr: TRAP_PROP - TP 0 - Unknown CUDA fault at address 00201b1000
[   62.941714] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: gr: TRAP_PROP - TP 0 - e0c: 00000000, e18: 00000ff2, e1c: 00000000, e20: 00000000, e24: 09030000
[   62.941726] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: gr: TRAP_PROP - TP 1 - Unknown CUDA fault at address 00201b9000
[   62.941728] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: gr: TRAP_PROP - TP 1 - e0c: 00000000, e18: 00000ff2, e1c: 00000000, e20: 00000000, e24: 09030000
[   62.941731] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: gr: 00200000 [] ch 2 [001fa80000 kgx[1636]] subc 3 class 8297 mthd 15e0 data 00000000
[   62.941748] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: fb: trapped write at 00201b1000 on channel 2 [1fa80000 kgx[1636]] engine 00 [PGRAPH] client 0b [PROP] subclient 09 [LOCAL] reason 00000002 [PAGE_NOT_PRESENT]
[   63.086486] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: gr: TRAP_PROP - TP 0 - Unknown CUDA fault at address 00201b0200

I'm running gdm/GNOME and wayland. The system has two joined monitors.

Is there something that is up to date that I can read about this? A lot that has been written on this topic is dated. Also, I'm used to the X log file being /var/log/Xorg.0.log but it looks like that changed (under wayland?), where is the log file now? I'm wondering if I should change from the nouveau driver to something else, but I'm not sure if that's a good idea, or how to go about that.

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