excess loging from nouveau driver in opensuse 12.2 fresh install

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I have a fresh install of opensuse 12.2 on a 64bit Pentium processor
what is the reason for the thousands of lines logged in /var/log/messages as below ?

Aug 29 16:01:32 beirut kernel: 654.026626] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: PFIFO_CACHE_ERROR - Ch 2/2 Mthd 0x0860 Data 0xffffffff
Aug 29 16:01:32 beirut kernel: 654.026646] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: PFIFO_CACHE_ERROR - Ch 2/2 Mthd 0x0860 Data 0xffffffff
Aug 29 16:01:32 beirut kernel: 654.026666] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: PFIFO_CACHE_ERROR - Ch 2/2 Mthd 0x0860 Data 0xffffffff
Aug 29 16:01:32 beirut kernel: 654.026686] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: PFIFO_CACHE_ERROR - Ch 2/2 Mthd 0x0860 Data 0xffffffff
Aug 29 16:01:32 beirut kernel: 654.026706] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: PFIFO_CACHE_ERROR - Ch 2/2 Mthd 0x0860 Data 0xffffffff
Aug 29 16:01:32 beirut kernel: 654.026726] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: PFIFO_CACHE_ERROR - Ch 2/2 Mthd 0x0860 Data 0xff333333
Aug 29 16:01:32 beirut kernel: 654.026746] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: PFIFO_CACHE_ERROR - Ch 2/2 Mthd 0x0860 Data 0xffffffff
Aug 29 16:01:32 beirut kernel: 654.026766] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: PFIFO_CACHE_ERROR - Ch 2/2 Mthd 0x0860 Data 0xffffffff
Aug 29 16:01:32 beirut kernel: 654.026787] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: PFIFO_CACHE_ERROR - Ch 2/2 Mthd 0x0860 Data 0xffffffff
Aug 29 16:01:32 beirut kernel: 654.026808] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: PFIFO_CACHE_ERROR - Ch 2/2 Mthd 0x0860 Data 0xffffffff
Aug 29 16:01:32 beirut kernel: 654.026828] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: PFIFO_CACHE_ERROR - Ch 2/2 Mthd 0x0860 Data 0xffffffff
Aug 29 16:01:32 beirut kernel: 654.026848] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: PFIFO_CACHE_ERROR - Ch 2/2 Mthd 0x0860 Data 0xffffffff

Thanks for helping

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It seems to be a reported problem with the nouveau video kernel driver. I think your options are the following:

  1. Switch to the nVIDIA proprietary video driver:

Installing the nVIDIA Video Driver the Hard Way - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

LNVHW - Load NVIDIA (driver the) Hard Way from runlevel 3 - Version 1.46 - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

  1. Upgrade to a newer kernel like 3.5.3 for instance:

S.A.K.C. - SUSE Automated Kernel Compiler - Version 2.76 - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

S.G.T.B. - SuSE Git Kernel Tarball Creator - Version 1.81 - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

S.A.K.R. - SUSE Automated Kernel Remover - Version 1.0.2 - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

Just a few bash script links that might help.

Thank You,