Nouveau driver causes a driver crash on linux (BadAlloc)

Affects versions

1.21.7 1.21.8 and probably all previous versions of the game too.

Description

On Linux, I’m using a laptop that has a GTX 1660 Ti GPU, one with 4 Gb of RAM.
The open source Nouveau driver is used with the GPU, and with it the game keeps crashing, with both vanilla and modded and with both the official launcher and other launchers like MultiMC.

See the logs for other launchers:

Picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS: 
[19:43:02] [Datafixer Bootstrap/INFO]: 269 Datafixer optimizations took 782 milliseconds
[19:43:11] [Render thread/INFO]: Environment: Environment[sessionHost=https://sessionserver.mojang.com, servicesHost=https://api.minecraftservices.com, name=PROD]
[19:43:11] [Render thread/INFO]: Setting user: FellFromTheSky
[19:43:11] [Render thread/INFO]: Backend library: LWJGL version 3.3.3+5
[19:43:11] [Render thread/WARN]: Detected unexpected shutdown during last game startup: resetting fullscreen mode
X Error of failed request:  BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  148 ()
  Minor opcode of failed request:  7
  Serial number of failed request:  166
  Current serial number in output stream:  169

See the attached crash report for the official launcher.

See the attached “Launcher.log” for the official launcher logs.

With MultiMC, switcheroo-control or DRI_PRIME=1! is used for forcing the dGPU, otherwise the game is always launched with the Radeon VEGA iGPU.
The game works fine with the Radeon VEGA iGPU, but always crash with the dGPU.

For some reasons, the dGPU VRAM is misdetected?

Steps to reproduce:

1. Have a computer with any Nvidia GPU fully compatible with the Nouveau driver:
   Fermi, Kepler, Maxwell, Ada Lovelace, Ampere, … but not Pascal since it has no reclocking support yet.

2. Start the launcher through the terminal like that: DRI_PRIME=1! minecraft-launcher,

3. Start the game and there's 99% chance it will crash (at least on Xorg, no clue for Wayland).