linux-kernel - Re: [Nouveau] NVIDIA GP107 (137000a1)

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Message-ID: <CAOkhzLXZVNdpgwV=iiO0TEvLp3Hx28Zk8iYzwy5BvJ1pWi4QxQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 4 Jun 2020 18:04:40 +0200
From:   Zeno Davatz <zdavatz@...il.com>
To:     Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@...m.mit.edu>
Cc:     nouveau <nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Nouveau] NVIDIA GP107 (137000a1) - acr: failed to load firmware

Thank you, Ilia

On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 5:25 PM Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@...m.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