I let it ran and got those messages: [ 417.536352] [TTM] Failed to find memory space for buffer 0xffff9e44c2076c00 eviction [ 417.544122] [TTM] No space for ffff9e44c2076c00 (1366 pages, 5464K, 5M) [ 417.550739] [TTM] placement[0]=0x00070002 (1) [ 417.555265] [TTM] has_type: 1 [ 417.558577] [TTM] use_type: 1 [ 417.561889] [TTM] flags: 0x0000000A [ 417.565718] [TTM] gpu_offset: 0x00000000 [ 417.569984] [TTM] size: 131072 [ 417.573383] [TTM] available_caching: 0x00070000 [ 417.578255] [TTM] default_caching: 0x00010000 [ 417.582957] nouveau 0000:08:00.0: Xorg[710]: fail ttm_validate [ 417.588786] nouveau 0000:08:00.0: Xorg[710]: validating bo list [ 417.594702] nouveau 0000:08:00.0: Xorg[710]: validate: -12 [ 417.735888] nouveau 0000:08:00.0: DRM: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon The screen was black and had a flashing, white underscore. Then i tried switching to tty and that worked. After switching to graphical screen also that was in a broken way back again. This switching around have produces those logs: [ 867.565080] [TTM] Failed to find memory space for buffer 0xffff9e44c2279400 eviction [ 867.572841] [TTM] No space for ffff9e44c2279400 (1366 pages, 5464K, 5M) [ 867.579450] [TTM] placement[0]=0x00070002 (1) [ 867.583972] [TTM] has_type: 1 [ 867.587279] [TTM] use_type: 1 [ 867.590583] [TTM] flags: 0x0000000A [ 867.594409] [TTM] gpu_offset: 0x00000000 [ 867.598670] [TTM] size: 131072 [ 867.602061] [TTM] available_caching: 0x00070000 [ 867.606928] [TTM] default_caching: 0x00010000 [ 867.611626] nouveau 0000:08:00.0: supertuxkart[1075]: fail ttm_validate [ 867.618230] nouveau 0000:08:00.0: supertuxkart[1075]: validating bo list [ 867.624919] nouveau 0000:08:00.0: supertuxkart[1075]: validate: -12 The RAM size of the card is 256MB.