> Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 13:24:55 +0200 > From: Arvydas Sidorenko <[email protected]> > To: "Robert M. Riches Jr." <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Robert M. Riches Jr. > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is it considered safe to rmmod nouveau and then modprobe it back > > again? ?I have a diskless system with a different card I could try > > that with to gain confidence if the list says it's safe to do that. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Robert Riches > > _______________________________________________ > > Nouveau mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau > > I very doubt that rmmod and modprobe will help you in any way since > nouveau is KMS module and it stays in use the whole time. Something > will be broken anyway. But you can try and see what's happening, it > will not brick your card.
Arvydas, thank you very much for that info/advice. You were 100% right that rmmod refused to remove the nouveau module. Is there any other way to force a reset of a graphics card or driver module other than OS shutdown/reboot? Thanks, Robert Riches _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
