#808400 xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: Kernel Panic due to nouveau driver: Machine locks up and then restarts (watchdog)

Package:
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
Source:
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
Description:
X.Org X server -- Nouveau display driver
Submitter:
Nigra Truo
Date:
2015-12-21 21:18:04 UTC
Severity:
important
#808400#5
Date:
2015-12-19 16:25:02 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?
I start the X session, either by KDE or Gnome, does not matter.

* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
I use the laptop normal for a while, opening programs.
Then, the system locks up and the watchdog restarts the system after a kernel
panic in about 10 seconds.


This is on a Lenovo T61 Laptop, 4 GB of Ram, NVIDIA graphics card, using the
nouveau driver. Never had an issue like this before when using about 3 debian
versions.

Laptop was running fine a week ago with Debian Wheezy, no issues. I ran the RAM
test for several hours, came back clean. CPU stress test was negative too, no
overheating, no fans issue.

#808400#14
Date:
2015-12-21 21:15:16 UTC
From:
To:
So this has been quite an ordeal, a little history:
I upgraded this laptop to Debian Jessie and had kernel panics when using
Nouveau. I then switched to the proprietary driver and found that that
worked, but instead of kernel panics, I just got X crashes that were pretty
consistent to when the panic happened before. I opened a bug, BUT was
immediately told that nobody would fix it, that they won't touch the bug
due to using the proprietary driver, so I'm stuck again. I reverted back to
the Nouveau driver and opened this bug here.
Now my question: Will this bug get fixed? How can I help? Which logs would
you need?
I just need to know, so I can stabilize this laptop again, because I need
it to work and might have to downgrade to the working Debian Wheezy to fix
this.