[SLUG] Nouveau Firmware and Driver setup.

[Brett]

Last night at SLUG, Graeme was asking about a Nouveau error he was having.

We discussed about firmware for Nouveau and it did appears to have some
on one of my machines, maybe just used in early nouveau development?

Wed Apr 30 21:18:41 2014 >>> sys-firmware/nouveau-firmware-325.15
Thu Feb 19 17:47:33 2015 >>> x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau-9999

which you can see is a Beta(unstable) install by the 9999 suffix. (this
is a gentoo thing.)


more info can be found here:

http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/VideoAcceleration/

localhost ~ # dmesg |grep -i nouv
[ 0.899366] nouveau [ DEVICE][0000:02:00.0] BOOT0 : 0x0c8080a1
[ 0.899465] nouveau [ DEVICE][0000:02:00.0] Chipset: GF110 (NVC8)
[ 0.899590] nouveau [ DEVICE][0000:02:00.0] Family : NVC0
[ 0.899698] nouveau [ VBIOS][0000:02:00.0] checking PRAMIN for
image...
[ 0.996419] nouveau [ VBIOS][0000:02:00.0] ... appears to be valid
[ 0.996523] nouveau [ VBIOS][0000:02:00.0] using image from PRAMIN
[ 0.996744] nouveau [ VBIOS][0000:02:00.0] BIT signature found
[ 0.996843] nouveau [ VBIOS][0000:02:00.0] version 70.10.17.00.03
[ 1.019321] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: irq 24 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 1.019328] nouveau [ PMC][0000:02:00.0] MSI interrupts enabled
[ 1.019459] nouveau [ PFB][0000:02:00.0] RAM type: GDDR5
[ 1.019561] nouveau [ PFB][0000:02:00.0] RAM size: 1280 MiB
[ 1.019658] nouveau [ PFB][0000:02:00.0] ZCOMP: 0 tags
[ 1.021221] nouveau [ VOLT][0000:02:00.0] GPU voltage: 913000uv
[ 1.050574] nouveau [ PTHERM][0000:02:00.0] FAN control: PWM
[ 1.050682] nouveau [ PTHERM][0000:02:00.0] fan management: automatic
[ 1.050800] nouveau [ PTHERM][0000:02:00.0] internal sensor: yes
[ 1.070950] nouveau [ CLK][0000:02:00.0] 03: core 50 MHz
memory 135 MHz
[ 1.071054] nouveau [ CLK][0000:02:00.0] 07: core 405 MHz
memory 324 MHz
[ 1.071193] nouveau [ CLK][0000:02:00.0] 0f: core 732 MHz
memory 1900 MHz
[ 1.071411] nouveau [ CLK][0000:02:00.0] --: core 50 MHz
memory 135 MHz
[ 1.074156] nouveau [ DRM] VRAM: 1280 MiB
[ 1.074252] nouveau [ DRM] GART: 1048576 MiB
[ 1.074344] nouveau [ DRM] TMDS table version 2.0
[ 1.074437] nouveau [ DRM] DCB version 4.0
[ 1.074534] nouveau [ DRM] DCB outp 00: 02000300 00000000
[ 1.074630] nouveau [ DRM] DCB outp 01: 01000302 00020030
[ 1.074726] nouveau [ DRM] DCB outp 02: 04011380 00000000
[ 1.074822] nouveau [ DRM] DCB outp 03: 08011382 00020030
[ 1.074919] nouveau [ DRM] DCB outp 04: 02022362 00020010
[ 1.075015] nouveau [ DRM] DCB conn 00: 00001030
[ 1.075141] nouveau [ DRM] DCB conn 01: 00010130
[ 1.075267] nouveau [ DRM] DCB conn 02: 00002261
[ 1.080162] nouveau [ DRM] MM: using COPY0 for buffer copies
[ 1.328603] nouveau [ DRM] allocated 1920x1080 fb: 0x60000, bo
ffff8800df8d9800
[ 1.328822] fbcon: nouveaufb (fb0) is primary device
[ 1.417990] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: fb0: nouveaufb frame buffer device
[ 1.418017] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: registered panic notifier
[ 1.422560] [drm] Initialized nouveau 1.2.1 20120801 for
0000:02:00.0 on minor 0

cut from : cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log |grep -i nouv

.......

[ 36.875] (II) NOUVEAU(0): [DRI2] Setup complete
[ 36.875] (II) NOUVEAU(0): [DRI2] DRI driver: nouveau
[ 36.875] (II) NOUVEAU(0): [DRI2] VDPAU driver: nouveau
[ 36.892] (==) NOUVEAU(0): Backing store enabled
[ 36.892] (==) NOUVEAU(0): Silken mouse enabled
[ 36.892] (II) NOUVEAU(0): [XvMC] Associated with Nouveau GeForce
8/9 Textured Video.
[ 36.892] (II) NOUVEAU(0): [XvMC] Extension initialized.
[ 36.892] (==) NOUVEAU(0): DPMS enabled
[ 36.892] (II) NOUVEAU(0): RandR 1.2 enabled, ignore the following
RandR disabled message.
[ 37.364] (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized nouveau
[ 37.367] (II) NOUVEAU(0): NVEnterVT is called.

.........

My recommendation is to use the unstable drivers but yeah, be careful.

Brett