I recently switched from the proprietary driver to the nouveau driver and everything appeared to go well except that during boot I see: GPU lockup detected switching to software fbcon so I did some googling and ended up adding 'nouveau.noaccel=1' to my command line which solves the issue. Obviously this isn't ideal as I'd like to have accel turned on ;) Does anyone have any idea why I'm getting the lockup? Relevant(?) info: ~ $ eselect opengl list Available OpenGL implementations: [1] xorg-x11 * ~ $ eselect mesa list 64bit i915 (Intel 915, 945) 64bit i965 (Intel 965, G/Q3x, G/Q4x) 64bit r300 (Radeon R300-R500) 64bit r600 (Radeon R600-R700, Evergreen, Northern Islands) 64bit sw (Software renderer) [1] classic [2] gallium * 32bit i915 (Intel 915, 945) [1] classic * [2] gallium 32bit i965 (Intel 965, G/Q3x, G/Q4x) [1] classic * [2] gallium 32bit r300 (Radeon R300-R500) [1] classic [2] gallium * 32bit r600 (Radeon R600-R700, Evergreen, Northern Islands) [1] classic * [2] gallium 32bit sw (Software renderer) [1] classic [2] gallium * dmesg (with noaccel option) , kernel config, and lspci output attached. In my googling I did see one mention of someone w/ this gpu lockup problem and it seemed to be caused by having more than one video device. My mobo does have an onboard graphic device, but I've disabled it in the BIOS and it does *not* show up in the lspci output, fwiw. I do find it a bit odd that there is no mention of nvidia/nouveau in the 'eselect mesa' output above, but I don't know if that is normal since 'eix mesa' shows that it does see my video choice: [I] media-libs/mesa Available versions: 7.9.1 7.9.2 7.10.1{tbz2} (~)7.10.2{tbz2} {+classic debug +gallium gles hardened kernel_FreeBSD llvm motif +nptl pic selinux video_cards_intel video_cards_mach64 video_cards_mga video_cards_nouveau video_cards_r128 video_cards_radeon video_cards_savage video_cards_sis video_cards_tdfx video_cards_via video_cards_vmware} Installed versions: 7.10.2{tbz2}(03:07:24 PM 04/10/2011)(classic gallium nptl video_cards_nouveau -debug -gles -hardened -kernel_FreeBSD -llvm -motif -pic -selinux -video_cards_intel -video_cards_mach64 -video_cards_mga -video_cards_r128 -video_cards_radeon -video_cards_savage -video_cards_sis -video_cards_tdfx -video_cards_via -video_cards_vmware) Any pointers? Thanks.