I have an interesting situation here. My system has two nvidia 9800GT cards in sli configuration, and works great with the proprietary nvidia driver. Until last night. First, I noticed some odd artifacts -- every time I tried to move a window, I would get snow all over the screen that cleared up after a second or two. Reboot, and system hangs dead. Hmmm. Booted into single mode, deleted xorg.confg, rebooted, goes into VESA mode just fine. Can't boot windows at all. A little more playing around, and I conclude that one of the cards is whacked. Can't physically remove it, as the neat little NVIDIA system board has these locking devices on the slot connectors I can't figure out. So I try booting the maverick system that has the nouveau driver installed, and up it comes, albeit with nouveau's minimal compositing. I'd much rather hack at it myself, but after all I did pay for the warranty, so until the tech gets here, the system is still alive.
So either the nouveau driver simply hasn't got to the point that it implements whatever feature of the card is actually failing, or it's fault tolerant beyond belief.
So either the nouveau driver simply hasn't got to the point that it implements whatever feature of the card is actually failing, or it's fault tolerant beyond belief.
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