On 2023-03-06 08:55 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Fab Stz <fabstz...@yahoo.fr> (2023-03-06): >> Package: installation-reports >> Severity: normal >> >> I couldn't try on the real system which is an iMac 9.1 (because I don't have >> physical access to it presently), but there is no package shipping these >> firmware files which are required by nouveau. >> >> firmware: failed to load nouveau/nvac_fuc084 (-2) >> firmware: failed to load nouveau/nvac_fuc084d (-2) >> >> Boot method: DVD >> Image version: >> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-dvd/debian-testing-amd64-DVD-1.iso >> Date: 2023-03-06 >> >> Machine: imac 9.1 >> >> Until now, I installed them this way as per >> https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/VideoAcceleration.html >> >> mkdir /tmp/nouveau >> cd /tmp/nouveau >> wget https://raw.github.com/envytools/firmware/master/extract_firmware.py >> wget >> http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/325.15/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-325.15.run >> sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-325.15.run --extract-only >> python2.7 extract_firmware.py # this script is for python 2 only >> mkdir /lib/firmware/nouveau >> cp -d nv* vuc-* /lib/firmware/nouveau/ >> >> >> It would be nice if there were a firmware package for it in bookworm > > I can't really check license etc. right now, but that looks like > something that should be filed against src:firmware-nonfree, which ships > some nvidia-related firmware files in its firmware-misc-nonfree binary > package.
Already done in #990662. The firmware in question is not distributable, so it cannot be shipped in firmware-misc-nonfree. A downloader package in contrib could be a solution, though. Cheers, Sven