On 2017-07-17 14:19 -0600, D. R. Evans wrote:
> Beginning a couple of weeks ago, I started to experience occasional freezes or
> sudden blank screens on my 64-bit jessie system.
>
> It just happened again, and this time the following appeared in the syslog:
> Jul 17 13:55:05 homebrew kernel: [24064.296254] nouveau E[
> PFIFO][0000:01:00.0] write fault at 0x000029d000 [PTE] from GR/GPC0/GPCCS on
> channel 0x003fbad000 [Xorg[2071]]
>
> followed by several more messages that appear to be related, the last of which
> was:
>
> Jul 17 13:58:23 homebrew kernel: [24262.075187] nouveau E[ DRM] GPU lockup
> - switching to software fbcon
>
> I don't know how a particular driver gets chosen by the system, but is there a
> different driver I could try?
There is the non-free NVidia blob, available via the nvidia-driver metapackage.
> Also, is there a way to find out when was the last time that nouveau was
> updated on my system? If it was a couple of weeks ago, then I would be even
> more sure that it's the culprit.
There are multiple components which could have caused this, but the only
one which sees regular updates in jessie is the kernel. Look at the recent
history of the linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 package on your system
(assuming that's the kernel version you use).
Cheers,
Sven
