Dear Ilia FYI: On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 8:31 PM Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Depends on distro specifics. Also the firmware has to be available at > the time that nouveau loads. The corollary to this is: > > If it's built into the kernel, then the firmware must also be included > in the kernel (since this happens before any FS stuff) > If it's loaded as a module from initrd, then initrd must contain the firmware > > If you need help including firmware in the right place, a distro > support channel is probably your best shot. https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-driver-does-not-work-for-kernel-5-6-nvidia-gp107/118413/6 /usr/src/linux> dmesg | grep nvidia [ 3.203080] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel. [ 3.203088] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. [ 3.218324] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 248 [ 3.218640] nvidia 0000:05:00.0: vgaarb: changed VGA decodes: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem [ 3.431032] nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms 440.64 Fri Feb 21 00:43:19 UTC 2020 [ 3.451954] [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000500] Loading driver [ 3.451956] [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 20160202 for 0000:05:00.0 on minor 1 Best Zeno On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 8:31 PM Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 1:59 PM Zeno Davatz <zdavatz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 7:23 PM Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 1:21 PM Zeno Davatz <zdavatz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 6:59 PM Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Ben -- probably the ACR changes in 5.6 don't fall back nicely anymore > > > > > when there's no firmware? The load shouldn't be failed, just GR > > > > > disabled... > > > > > > > > > > Zeno -- if you grab linux-firmware, it should be all better. Not sure > > > > > if you're missing it on purpose or by accident. > > > > > > > > Thank you, Ilia > > > > > > > > I will try that on my Gentoo/Funtoo machine now. So far linux-firmware > > > > was not needed with Kernel 5.5, so it was not installed on my machine. > > > > > > It was needed on 5.5 as well. It's just that it fell back gracefully > > > without firmware, and you didn't get any acceleration features. > > > > Do I need any of these enabled for linux-firmware to load properly in > > Kernel 5.6? > > > > -*- Firmware loading facility > > │ │ () Build named firmware > > blobs into the kernel binary > > │ │ [ ] Enable the firmware > > sysfs fallback mechanism > > │ │ [ ] Enable compressed > > firmware support > > Depends on distro specifics. Also the firmware has to be available at > the time that nouveau loads. The corollary to this is: > > If it's built into the kernel, then the firmware must also be included > in the kernel (since this happens before any FS stuff) > If it's loaded as a module from initrd, then initrd must contain the firmware > > If you need help including firmware in the right place, a distro > support channel is probably your best shot. > > Cheers, > > -ilia _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list Nouveau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
