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still seeking way to recover card after cursor disappears or card locks up
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A couple of weeks ago, I posted a question about how to recover a card (an Asus ENGT430 card, which the box says is a GeForce GT 430, running Mageia 1 with kernel 2.6.38.8-server-10.mga) when the cursor had disappeared or the card had locked up while exiting X. Thanks to Vincent Pelletier for for suggesting chvt. That command does work to change the console, just as Alt-Ctrl-F(n) for 1 <= n <= 12 does. However, it does not recover a card to a fully useful state. A couple of days ago, I had two monitors working, and the card got into a very odd state where one monitor would respond to chvt, Alt-Ctrl-F(n), switching between X and a text console, and such, but the other monitor was frozen. Nothing involving chvt had any effect on the unresponsive monitor. Is there some other way to recover the card/driver to a useful state? Doing "shutdown -hF now" will do it, but that takes a long time to being the system back up. 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
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Robert M. Riches Jr. 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 > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo...On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Robert M. Riches Jr. 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 > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo...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.