OK, tired with RHEL 6.5 kernel 2.6.32.431 and the two options: Command line: ro root=UUID=034d34cd-a464-4ee3-8db9-d6061a318a16 rd_NO_LUKS LANG=en_US.UTF-8 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=de-latin1-nodeadkeys rd_NO_MD SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_DM nouveau.perflvl_wr=7777 nouveau.perflvl=1 crashkernel=auto and saw nouveau 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 nouveau 0000:01:00.0: power state changed by ACPI to D0 nouveau 0000:01:00.0: power state changed by ACPI to D0 nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 nouveau [ DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] BOOT0 : 0x086a00a2 nouveau [ DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] Chipset: G86 (NV86) nouveau [ DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] Family : NV50 nouveau [ VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] checking PRAMIN for image... nouveau [ VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] ... appears to be valid nouveau [ VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] using image from PRAMIN nouveau [ VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] BIT signature found nouveau [ VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] version 60.86.49.00.27 nouveau [ PFB][0000:01:00.0] RAM type: DDR2 nouveau [ PFB][0000:01:00.0] RAM size: 256 MiB nouveau [ PFB][0000:01:00.0] ZCOMP: 646 tags nouveau [ PTHERM][0000:01:00.0] FAN control: none / external nouveau [ PTHERM][0000:01:00.0] fan management: disabled nouveau [ PTHERM][0000:01:00.0] internal sensor: yes nouveau [ PTHERM][0000:01:00.0] Programmed thresholds [ 90(3), 95(3), 125(5), 125(5) ] [TTM] Zone kernel: Available graphics memory: 2963482 kiB [TTM] Zone dma32: Available graphics memory: 2097152 kiB [TTM] Initializing pool allocator [TTM] Initializing DMA pool allocator nouveau [ DRM] VRAM: 256 MiB nouveau [ DRM] GART: 512 MiB nouveau [ DRM] TMDS table version 2.0 nouveau [ DRM] DCB version 4.0 nouveau [ DRM] DCB outp 00: 010003f3 00010035 nouveau [ DRM] DCB outp 01: 02811300 00000028 nouveau [ DRM] DCB outp 02: 02822312 00000030 nouveau [ DRM] DCB outp 03: 01833320 00000028 nouveau [ DRM] DCB conn 00: 0040 nouveau [ DRM] DCB conn 01: 0100 nouveau [ DRM] DCB conn 02: 1255 nouveau [ DRM] DCB conn 03: 0351 nouveau [ DRM] BIOS FP mode: 1680x1050 (119880kHz pixel clock) nouveau E[ PTHERM][0000:01:00.0] unhandled intr 0x000001e1 Slow work thread pool: Starting up Slow work thread pool: Ready nouveau W[ DRM] unknown connector type 55 nouveau W[ DRM] unknown connector type 51 [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 1 (10.10.2010). [drm] No driver support for vblank timestamp query. nouveau [ DRM] ACPI backlight interface available, not registering our own nouveau [ DRM] 3 available performance level(s) nouveau [ DRM] 0: core 169MHz shader 338MHz memory 100MHz voltage 1150mV fanspeed 100% nouveau [ DRM] 1: core 275MHz shader 550MHz memory 200MHz voltage 1150mV fanspeed 100% nouveau [ DRM] 2: core 400MHz shader 800MHz memory 400MHz voltage 1200mV fanspeed 100% nouveau [ DRM] c: core 275MHz shader 550MHz memory 99MHz voltage 1200mV nouveau [ DRM] setting performance level: 1 nouveau E[ PBUS][0000:01:00.0] MMIO write of 0x88888888 FAULT at 0x100844 nouveau E[ PBUS][0000:01:00.0] MMIO write of 0x11111111 FAULT at 0x100764 nouveau [ DRM] > reclocking took 8299680ns nouveau E[ PBUS][0000:01:00.0] MMIO write of 0x00000010 FAULT at 0x10200c nouveau [ DRM] MM: using CRYPT for buffer copies nouveau [ DRM] allocated 1680x1050 fb: 0x60000, bo ffff8801b3e6d400 fbcon: nouveaufb (fb0) is primary device So it seems we had some "reclocking" taking place, but also we still have the errors about "MMIO write" errors, and also the screen is distorted in the exact same way like before even after just two minutes... Any comments? Thanks, Andreas