You should consider installing the nVidia driver from the rpmfusion repo

http://www.rpmfusion.org

On Monday, April 22, 2013, Darryl L. Pierce <mcpierce@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 01:54:39PM -0400, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:03:18AM -0400, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
>> > Video hardware is an nVidia GF108 [Quadro NVS 5400M] chipset. What I'm
>> > seeing is, either when first logging in or when resuming from suspend
>> > mode, the desktop is either scrambled (but still active) or
>> > non-responsive. If I SSH into the laptop or else drop to a TTY, I see:
>> >
>> > Apr 22 09:25:29 mcpierce-work kernel: [ 1614.663139] nouveau E[PGRAPH][0000:01:00.0] TRAP ch 3 [0x001fb8c000]
>> > Apr 22 09:25:29 mcpierce-work kernel: [ 1614.663144] nouveau E[PGRAPH][0000:01:00.0] SHADER 0xa2040200
>> >
>> > scrolling by the screen. When I restart X the error sometimes stops, but
>> > when the problem occurs that message is there.
>> >
>> > Any suggestions?
>>
>> After some extra googling I found one suggestion for this, to add
>> "nox2apic" to the kernel command line. My laptop, at least for the
>> moment, seems to be rather stable.
>
> ....and, 2 minutes later, the video went nuts when I tried to change my
> wallpaper....
>
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> Darryl L. Pierce <mcpierce@gmail.com>
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>