OK, I'm getting frustrated as hell. :-) I've got my new system built, and managed to get the dmesg uploaded to NYCBug ...
It's got a AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D CPU, which has internal video configured as acpivga0 - I disable this (using userconf) when I boot because I need to use the older-but-supported GeForce 730 graphics card. Boot comes up normally and starts X (via xdm). However, I'm getting the following message logged on the console. As far as I can tell, they're logged when switching from the xdm console session to a non-X session; but it is difficult to be certain of the timing. nouveau0: error: DRM: core notifier timeout I also sometimes get nouveau0: failed to idle channel n [user] when stopping xdm. During normal operation, things are OK, other than "jerky" cursor tracking. Most often, the cursor "sticks" in one spot for a few seconds, and then continues to track. "One spot" is very often, but NOT ALWAYS, at a point where the mouse icon needs to change (ie, it enters or leaves a window or button, etc.) After a while, the system just hangs (suspicion: it's hitting one of the core notifier timeouts, and hangs forever rather than time-out). I can still access the machine via network log-in but cannot get anything done "locally". At this point I can't even switch to the non-X console sessions. The hang-time varies, but comes much sooner when there is heavy system activity - like build.sh - going on. It even comes, however, with no activity at all - just staring at the screen for a few hours triggers the hang. I've got a bunch of newer video cards, but our current video drivers don't support them, and end up using genfb with a "default" mode-line that makes everything look wrong. And I've already cannabilized the old machine (which had a now non-functional GeForce 1050 Ti - maybe it was a 1080 but I can't find any marking) so I can't go back. At this point, I am stuck and don't know how to proceed. I'm willing to buy one more video card (but only one!) if I have a high likelihood of it working. But if there's something else going on which is likely to be fatal no matter what video card I choose I'd rather not spend more cash. If you do recommend another card, please be very explicit in identifying the make and model and any other relevant attributes (how much graphics memory, for example). All reasonable suggestions will be appreciated. If there are specific debug commands to try, please let me know. (But also know that I don't know much about the video subsystem - this is way beyond my usual level of knowledge.) +---------------------+--------------------------+----------------------+ | Paul Goyette (.sig) | PGP Key fingerprint: | E-mail addresses: | | (Retired) | 1B11 1849 721C 56C8 F63A | p...@whooppee.com | | Software Developer | 6E2E 05FD 15CE 9F2D 5102 | pgoye...@netbsd.org | | & Network Engineer | | pgoyett...@gmail.com | +---------------------+--------------------------+----------------------+