Nouveau - Apr 2011 - Happy Easter! A gift, someone?

Hi nouveau-team!

First of all, Happy Easter! But what would Easter be without some gifts? ;-)

The truth is, I upgraded my system recently, and even if that means that 
I moved to a manufacturer-provided open graphics stack, I still want to 
help nouveau somewhat, if useful and possible.

Because of that, I'd be willing to send my old graphics card to a 
nouveau developer, given that may result in some work to make stuff like 
that work better (I'm not sure how much that generation of cards is 
still in the plans of anyone to work on, but let's see).

The card in question is a "ASUS EN7600GT 2DHT Silent", which has a 
GeForce 7600 GT chip (NV4B) and a somewhat large passive cooling system 
to not require any active cooling.

Of course, that didn't match ideally with nouveau not supporting any 
power management on NV4*, so it ran at pretty high temperatures all the 
time since I switched away from the binary driver.

Probably because of that, the heads of 3 electrolyte capacitors on the 
card are slightly curved out - but it looked to me like the card would 
still work as "well" as it did all the time before - that is, it had 
massive problems with nouveau all the time and only worked somewhat 
usefully for longer periods of time when the kernel was launched with 
nouveau.noaccel=1 - which is not ideal, of course.

So, if anyone's around who wants to play with that card and try to 
improve nouveau working with it, tell me where to send it and I will. 
You get it for free, I'm also playing for sending it to you. As I'm in 
Vienna, Austria, Europe, I'd prefer to send to Europe, but I should in 
theory be able to send anywhere on this Earth (sorry, no luck atm when 
you're based on Mars or a different solar system).

Robert Kaiser

Le 24/04/2011 15:14, Robert Kaiser a ?crit :
> Hi nouveau-team!
>
> First of all, Happy Easter! But what would Easter be without some 
> gifts? ;-)
>
> The truth is, I upgraded my system recently, and even if that means 
> that I moved to a manufacturer-provided open graphics stack, I still 
> want to help nouveau somewhat, if useful and possible.
>
> Because of that, I'd be willing to send my old graphics card to a 
> nouveau developer, given that may result in some work to make stuff 
> like that work better (I'm not sure how much that generation of cards 
> is still in the plans of anyone to work on, but let's see).
>
> The card in question is a "ASUS EN7600GT 2DHT Silent", which has
a
> GeForce 7600 GT chip (NV4B) and a somewhat large passive cooling 
> system to not require any active cooling.
>
> Of course, that didn't match ideally with nouveau not supporting any 
> power management on NV4*, so it ran at pretty high temperatures all 
> the time since I switched away from the binary driver.
>
> Probably because of that, the heads of 3 electrolyte capacitors on the 
> card are slightly curved out - but it looked to me like the card would 
> still work as "well" as it did all the time before - that is, it
had
> massive problems with nouveau all the time and only worked somewhat 
> usefully for longer periods of time when the kernel was launched with 
> nouveau.noaccel=1 - which is not ideal, of course.
>
> So, if anyone's around who wants to play with that card and try to 
> improve nouveau working with it, tell me where to send it and I will. 
> You get it for free, I'm also playing for sending it to you. As I'm
in
> Vienna, Austria, Europe, I'd prefer to send to Europe, but I should in 
> theory be able to send anywhere on this Earth (sorry, no luck atm when 
> you're based on Mars or a different solar system).
>
> Robert Kaiser
Hi Robert,

If the card is problematic, we clearly should get it. I'm only working 
on power management, but if no-one is interested in it by the end of the 
week, I would gladly accept this card as I have no nv4X and would like 
to make sure my PM code is working on it. I may also try to fix the 
instability problem, but only when I make sure the problem isn't related 
to temperature.

Thanks for doing this,
Martin Peres