https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94990 --- Comment #113 from Lyude Paul --- Hey, as well even though this is fixed in the development branch I was asked by one of the other nouveau guys to post this for people running older kernels since it's easier to backport. This is a very dirty hack that disables the last 512 MB of VRAM for the GTX970, however it does technically fix the issue and let your GPU run. If you can't use Ben Skegg's patch, give this one a try -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.