Graphics become sluggish or frozen for nvidia Pascal cards

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • Display hangs with blank screen and or mouse movement slows down heavily, and becomes non-responsive / freezes.

  • We can see these messages in the syslog:

    Jan 21 15:01:43 xxx kernel: nouveau 0000:04:00.0: DRM: core notifier timeout
Jan 21 15:01:45 xxx kernel: nouveau 0000:04:00.0: DRM: core notifier timeout
Jan 21 15:01:47 xxx kernel: nouveau 0000:04:00.0: DRM: core notifier timeout
Jan 21 15:01:49 xxx kernel: nouveau 0000:04:00.0: DRM: base-0: timeout
Jan 21 15:01:51 xxx kernel: nouveau 0000:04:00.0: DRM: base-0: timeout
Jan 21 15:01:53 xxx kernel: nouveau 0000:04:00.0: DRM: base-0: timeout
......
Jan 21 15:45:12 xxx kernel: nouveau 0000:04:00.0: disp: 0x00005ed1[ ]: INIT_GENERIC_CONDITON: unknown 0x07
Jan 21 15:45:27 xxx kernel: nouveau 0000:04:00.0: disp: 0x0000653c[0]: INIT_GENERIC_CONDITON: unknown 0x07
Jan 21 15:53:24 xxx kernel: nouveau 0000:04:00.0: disp: 0x00005ed1[ ]: INIT_GENERIC_CONDITON: unknown 0x07
......
Jan 22 11:04:59 xxx kernel: nouveau: evo channel stalled

Environment

  • kernel-3.10.0-957.1.3.el7.x86_64
  • Nvidia Pascal GPU(GP106GL [Quadro P2000])

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