Why does nouveau driver logs 'framebuffer requires contiguous bo' errors in /var/log/messages ?

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • Updated RHEL6.5 to 6.6 on a Dell Precision WorkStation T5500 with NVIDIA Corporation G96GL [Quadro FX 580] graphics card.
  • Now the /var/log/messages is getting filled with thousands of these messages:
Oct 15 14:13:47 adnws173 kernel: nouveau E[     DRM] framebuffer requires contiguous bo
Oct 15 14:13:47 adnws173 kernel: nouveau E[     DRM] framebuffer requires contiguous bo
Oct 15 14:13:47 adnws173 kernel: nouveau E[     DRM] framebuffer requires contiguous bo
Oct 15 14:13:47 adnws173 kernel: nouveau E[     DRM] framebuffer requires contiguous bo
Oct 15 14:13:47 adnws173 kernel: nouveau E[     DRM] framebuffer requires contiguous bo
Oct 15 14:13:47 adnws173 kernel: nouveau E[     DRM] framebuffer requires contiguous bo

# grep nouveau /var/log/messages | wc -l
31871

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6

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