Nouveau - May 2010 - Nvidia says I have a 8200, but lspci says a GeForce 9200M G

Hello all,

I'm debugging a card that the Nvidia blob recognizes as an 8200 but
lspci says is a GeForce 9200M G. ?My original bug report is in
launchpad.(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/+bug/557895),
but I have been trying to debug further by using the nightly builds.
It still requires the noaccel flag to be set to work.

I was wondering if there is anyway I could force it to be detected as
a 8200 with nouveau.  I am guessing that it may be using some accel
features of the 9200 and that's the reason it doesn't work.  PCI ID is
10de:086f

Thanks!
Bryan

P.S. Off list, please respond directly. Thanks.

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Bryan Quigley <BryanQuigley at
ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm debugging a card that the Nvidia blob recognizes as an 8200 but
> lspci says is a GeForce 9200M G. ?My original bug report is in
>
launchpad.(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/+bug/557895),
> but I have been trying to debug further by using the nightly builds.
> It still requires the noaccel flag to be set to work.
>
> I was wondering if there is anyway I could force it to be detected as
> a 8200 with nouveau. ?I am guessing that it may be using some accel
> features of the 9200 and that's the reason it doesn't work. ?PCI ID
is
> 10de:086f
Don't pay attention to the marketing names, Nouveau is detecting your
card as an NVAC and that's all that matters. See your log:

[drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: Detected an NV50 generation card (0x0ac780b1)

Those chips are a little different from most other NV50s and not many
developers have access to them so there are probably still some issues
that need to be worked out.