linux-kernel - Re: nouveau driver locks up with 4.11 kernel

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Date:   Mon, 14 Aug 2017 22:29:40 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@...m.mit.edu>
Cc:     "nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org" <nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>,
        "dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org" <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: nouveau driver locks up with 4.11 kernel

On Mon 14-08-17 15:27:20, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 3:18 PM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org> wrote:
[...]
> > nouveau 0000:03:00.0: fifo: channel 6 [mpv/vo[3535]] kick timeout
> > nouveau: mpv/vo[3535]:00000000:0000906f: detach gr failed, -110
> 
> Are you using mpv in conjunction with the GL video output and
> VDPAU-based acceleration? That will kill nouveau. For VDPAU, I
> recommend mplayer.

Well, I am using mplayer package and vo=sdl. Which video output should I
try instead? Btw. xine seems to be using VDPAU as well, yet it doesn't
lockup the whole X session. The videou output doesn't work properly
either but at least I am able to kill xine and still have the session.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs