I managed to get netconsole working (had to wait until the long weekend so I could replace my work machine with my old desktop) and I've seen two lockups today, both referring to the nouveau driver. Looking on the ArchWiki I found that there are known problems with this driver and some (unspecified) chips, and the suggestion is to add the kernel parameter `nouveau.noaccel=1', so I'm going to try that.
I had a look at the ArchWiki description of the official drivers and for the driver for my GPU, nvidia-open, it says 'This is currently alpha quality, so there will be issues.' So I think I'll keep away from that for the moment. I'll report back if adding the kernel parameter helps. If I can get a week of use out of this box with no lockups that will be a start. Regards, Spencer
