Nouveau - Aug 2022 - Ubuntu 22.04 LTS system freezes 5 minutes then unlocks on nouveau, was stable on 20.04 w/nvidia

When I chose to upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Long Term
Stable now seems a bit unrealistic), for some reason they removed my nvidia
drivers and installed nouveau.? My system freezes intermittently for about 5
minutes when graphically active apps like Firefox, Chrome, GNUCash are running.?
I am limping along with Chrome set to not use hardware acceleration, a setting
both sad and amazingly odd!? I recall having a similar problem in 20.04 until I
switched to nvidia proprietary drivers.? I might do that again, but the controls
to do that successfully seem to be harder to find, and maybe 22.04 thinks that
they are incompatible.? I destroyed my bootability trying to install using the
nvidia 340 run file when it failed to make a kernel, and had to reload the whole
OS.? My GPU is an nVidia GT218 [GeForce 210], NVA8, rather old, now nominally
supported by the nvidia 340 series libraries.? My system is an?Hewlett-Packard
p6803w, AMD? Athlon(tm) ii x2 220 processor ? 2, with SSD and 16 GB RAM.? Ubuntu
22.04.1, Gnome 42.2, Wayland, with all current updates.

How can I help you find the bug?? Being both a 20 year hardware and 25 year
software computer veteran, I can follow requests pretty well.

BTW, nouveau does not allow BOINC apps to run on the GPU, which nvidia supported
under 20.04.

I'd hate to have to remove my GPU (the motherboard has a primitive one), or
replace the GPU if any compatible ones are still available, or replace my
computer to get a stable system.
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On 2022-08-18 13:02, David G. Pickett wrote:
> How can I help you find the bug?? Being both a 20 year hardware and 25 
> year software computer veteran, I can follow requests pretty well.
Hi David!

Please read the Bugs page on the wiki:

<https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/Bugs.html>

There are details there (and on linked pages) about how to report a bug. 
Since your problem does not seem to be related to 3D acceleration, you 
need to register and report your bug on the freedesktop.org GitLab instance:

<https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/nouveau/-/issues/>

Please note, I am not a nouveau developer; I'm just trying to help.

Owen