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