riveravaldez wrote: > > Anything visible in your logs? > > And this is what I get after just boot and log-in to desktop (just fluxbox): > > $ sudo dmesg | grep nouveau > [ 10.172253] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: NVIDIA C61 (04c000a2) > [ 10.420487] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: fb0: nouveaufb frame buffer device > [ 10.448078] [drm] Initialized nouveau 1.3.1 20120801 for > 0000:00:0d.0 on minor 0
Clipped to the most useful lines. > > Does it happen more often when your machine has been on for a longer time? > > No, it happens randomly. In some occasions I've been able to work for > a couple of days without hanging, but other times it hangs a couple of > minutes after being logged. Usually it hangs in less than an hour... I > have to reboot by pressing reset button. Nothing else works. This means that it's not a heat problem. OK. > > What kind of hardware do you have? > > $ lspci -kv > 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce > 7025 / nForce 630a] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) > Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a] > Kernel driver in use: nouveau > Kernel modules: nouveau I googled around, and sure enough, it looks like nouveau has problems with this hardware. stretch-backports non-free has 390.87-2~bpo9+1 which might help; if not, you should consider installing a new video card if that's an option. The cheapest new-in-box video cards are around $35 US, and will (a) work properly and (b) be noticeably faster than what you have now, if it were working. -dsr-
