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daren_k

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Registered: 2020-02-13

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nouveau crashing on 6.x kernel at boot or modprobe

On the go I use a 2020 ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 with a GTX 1660 Ti inside.

I noticed boot lockups a few months ago when linux 6.x released that I then couldn't/didn't trace which made me switch to linux-lts 5.15.

I recently experimented with blacklisting nouveau to use amdgpu off the APU and managed to boot into linux 6.x.
Firing up nouveau manually with modprobe segfaults on 6.x but works in linux-lts 5.15.

Now with the rumored linux 6.1 being the next LTS release I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to run the dedicated GPU anymore on Arch.
(Would be fine running on amdgpu only if it wasn't for the laptop extremely heating and spinning up for some reason)

So I'd look into resolving this issue with some help before this happens.
I'll dump what I can find in journalctl after modprobing nouveau in the next post, gotta reboot.

Edit:
Sadly nothing useful in journalctl when firing it up with modprobe:

$ sudo modprobe nouveau
[1]    3937 killed     sudo modprobe nouveau

Feb 13 21:15:12 daren-nb sudo[3937]:    daren : TTY=pts/4 ; PWD=/home/daren ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/modprobe nouveau
Feb 13 21:15:12 daren-nb sudo[3937]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by (uid=1000)
Feb 13 21:15:12 daren-nb sudo[3937]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root

Last edited by daren_k (2023-02-13 20:19:54)

V1del

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Re: nouveau crashing on 6.x kernel at boot or modprobe

Use the proprietary driver, nouveau will have been barely to not usable previously anyway. That card is Turing so technically eligible for nvidia-open if you want the FOSS fuzzies on the kernel module.

daren_k

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Registered: 2020-02-13

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Re: nouveau crashing on 6.x kernel at boot or modprobe

Ok, will check that out once it hits the fan.