The mesa tests mentioned above were conducted on a 3.10 kernel. In the mesa 9.1 case there is nothing interesting spit out by nouveau to dmesg. Only a few status messages,
[ 312.871019] nouveau [ DRM] suspending fbcon...
[ 312.871023] nouveau [ DRM] suspending display...
[ 312.871049] nouveau [ DRM] unpinning framebuffer(s)...
[ 312.871108] nouveau [ DRM] evicting buffers...
[ 313.133858] nouveau [ DRM] waiting for kernel channels to go idle...
[ 313.133883] nouveau [ DRM] suspending client object trees...
[ 313.134682] nouveau [ DRM] suspending kernel object tree...
...
[ 317.178155] nouveau [ DRM] re-enabling device...
[ 317.178170] nouveau [ DRM] resuming kernel object tree...
[ 317.178176] nouveau [ VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] running init tables
[ 317.287651] serial 00:08: activated
[ 317.357172] nouveau [ DRM] resuming client object trees...
[ 317.357691] nouveau [ DRM] resuming display...
The mesa tests mentioned above were conducted on a 3.10 kernel. In the mesa 9.1 case there is nothing interesting spit out by nouveau to dmesg. Only a few status messages,
[ 312.871019] nouveau [ DRM] suspending fbcon... 0000:01: 00.0] running init tables
[ 312.871023] nouveau [ DRM] suspending display...
[ 312.871049] nouveau [ DRM] unpinning framebuffer(s)...
[ 312.871108] nouveau [ DRM] evicting buffers...
[ 313.133858] nouveau [ DRM] waiting for kernel channels to go idle...
[ 313.133883] nouveau [ DRM] suspending client object trees...
[ 313.134682] nouveau [ DRM] suspending kernel object tree...
...
[ 317.178155] nouveau [ DRM] re-enabling device...
[ 317.178170] nouveau [ DRM] resuming kernel object tree...
[ 317.178176] nouveau [ VBIOS][
[ 317.287651] serial 00:08: activated
[ 317.357172] nouveau [ DRM] resuming client object trees...
[ 317.357691] nouveau [ DRM] resuming display...