> Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 13:24:55 +0200 > From: Arvydas Sidorenko > To: "Robert M. Riches Jr." <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Robert M. Riches Jr. > > 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.
> Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 15:13:16 +1000 > From: Ben Skeggs > To: "Robert M. Riches Jr." <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > > # 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. > Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 20:06:28 +0300 > From: Pekka Paalanen > To: [email protected] (Robert M. Riches Jr.) > Cc: [email protected], Arvydas Sidorenko <[email protected]> > > Hi, > > The unloading instructions are also in the wiki: > http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/KernelModeSetting > > Also a suspend-resume cycle has been said to help in recovering a > locked-up GPU. > > > Thanks, > pq Yes, thank you all very much for the suggestions. These commands, confirmed in the page modesetting page, did the trick: echo 0 > /sys/class/vtconsole/vtcon1/bind modprobe -r nouveau modprobe nouveau I was already blind on the console, so I logged in via ssh to do the above commands. After reloading the module, the console returned to full, normal function. Thank you, Robert Riches _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
