On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 08:55:49PM -0700, Robert M. Riches Jr. wrote: > > 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?
# echo 0 > /sys/class/vtconsole/vtcon1/bind; modprobe -r nouveau That should allow you to unload. Depending on the card, you won't have a display after this (pre-GeForce8 should restore VGA mode) and will have to reload the module blindly. Ben. > > Thanks, > > Robert Riches > _______________________________________________ > Nouveau mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
