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Open-Source NVIDIA Linux Driver Usage About To Become Much More Reliable
For those using the upstream open-source NVIDIA Linux driver 'Nouveau', with a pending fix coming for Linux 6.17 and existing kernel releases it should be a much more stable and reliable experience.
Fortunately, thanks to the stellar work of Faith Ekstrand and David Airlie, they managed to now address this in large part. Faith Ekstrand explained it's been a fencing bug where the context would randomly wedge and could lead to the app/game freezing and losing your X.Org Server / compositor in the process. Just don't disable nonstall irqs ever in normal operation, the event handling code will filter them out, and the driver will just enable/disable them at load time.
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