Nouveau - Jun 2020 - NVIDIA GP107 (137000a1) - acr: failed to load firmware

Thank you, Ilia

On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 5:25 PM Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu>
wrote:
> There's a lot more firmware files than that ... everything in the
> gp107 directory. Also this would only be necessary if nouveau is built
> into the kernel. The files just have to be available whenever nouveau
> is loaded -- if it's built in, that means the firmware has to be baked
> into the kernel too. If it's loaded from initrd, that means the
> firmware has to be in initrd. If it's loaded after boot, then the
> firmware has to be available after boot.
For the time being I got it working by removing all nouveau selections
in "make menuconfig" and by emerging
"x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers"
Version 440.82.

Back on the latest Linux Kernel. Feels great ;).

Linux zenogentoo 5.7.0 #84 SMP Thu Jun 4 17:47:15 CEST 2020 x86_64
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 960 @ 3.20GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Best
Zeno

On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 12:04 PM Zeno Davatz <zdavatz at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Thank you, Ilia
>
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 5:25 PM Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu>
wrote:
>
> > There's a lot more firmware files than that ... everything in the
> > gp107 directory. Also this would only be necessary if nouveau is built
> > into the kernel. The files just have to be available whenever nouveau
> > is loaded -- if it's built in, that means the firmware has to be
baked
> > into the kernel too. If it's loaded from initrd, that means the
> > firmware has to be in initrd. If it's loaded after boot, then the
> > firmware has to be available after boot.
>
> For the time being I got it working by removing all nouveau selections
> in "make menuconfig" and by emerging
"x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers"
> Version 440.82.
>
> Back on the latest Linux Kernel. Feels great ;).
>
> Linux zenogentoo 5.7.0 #84 SMP Thu Jun 4 17:47:15 CEST 2020 x86_64
> Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 960 @ 3.20GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
Not sure why you bother asking questions when you're just going to
dump nouveau anyways. This is the second time I've answered your
questions on this very topic, I think it'll be the last too.

Cheers,

  -ilia

Dear Ilia

On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 6:13 PM Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu>
wrote:
> Not sure why you bother asking questions when you're just going to
> dump nouveau anyways. This is the second time I've answered your
> questions on this very topic, I think it'll be the last too.
I will try again with the next Kernel release. So far I spent a lot of
time and I did not manage to get it to work. And I need my graphical
Linux Desktop.

I am a Nouveau user since day one.

This may also be a Gentoo/Funtoo Issue. I will keep you posted, if I
have any success.

Best
Zeno

On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 6:13 PM Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu>
wrote:
> Not sure why you bother asking questions when you're just going to
> dump nouveau anyways. This is the second time I've answered your
> questions on this very topic, I think it'll be the last too.
Actually, what I will try next is emerging
"x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau" Version-1.0.15-r1. It that works for
Nvidia, I guess it will also work for Nouveau. ;)

I would have preferred to have it all in the Kernel but that does not
seem possible.

Best
Zeno

Dear Ilia

On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 6:13 PM Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu>
wrote:
> Not sure why you bother asking questions when you're just going to
> dump nouveau anyways. This is the second time I've answered your
> questions on this very topic, I think it'll be the last too.
I tried again and removed the Nvidia-Drivers with

sudo emerge -C x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers

and installed

sudo emerge x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau

this works with Kernel 5.7.0!

~> inxi -G
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GP107 driver: N/A
           Display: server: X.Org 1.20.5 driver: nouveau,vesa
unloaded: modesetting resolution: 1680x1050~N/A
           OpenGL: renderer: Rasterizer v: 2.1 Mesa 19.1.4

but now xrandr no longer works.

~> xrandr -q

Screen 0: minimum 1680 x 1050, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 1680 x 1050
default connected 1680x1050+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   1680x1050      0.00*

Best
Zeno