Changeset d320827b for x/installing

Timestamp:

08/31/2023 04:14:09 AM (9 months ago)

Author:

Douglas R. Reno <renodr@…>

Branches:

12.0, 12.1, ken/TL2024, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, plabs/newcss, python3.11, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, xry111/llvm18

Children:

fe66201b

Parents:

81e4931

Message:

Add a section to xorg-config about issues with Nouveau GPUs.

If we had the Xorg Drivers section still with xf86-video-nouveau there,
this probably would've gone over there originally, but this place fits
well.

The original plan was to put this into LFS, but I decided against it
since it works fine until you start using programs such as Epiphany or
KDE Plasma.

File:

• x/installing/xorg-config.xml (modified) (1 diff)

x/installing/xorg-config.xml

@@ -89 +89 @@
     </note>
 
+    <note>
+      <para>
+        On systems with NVIDIA GPUs which are using the Nouveau kernel driver,
+        you may encounter occasional GPU crashes and hangs. If this problem
+        occurs, downgrade to the latest version of the Linux 6.1 kernel.
+        <!--https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/nouveau/-/issues/257-->
+      </para>
+    </note>
+
     <para>
       Generally, there is no specific configuration required for