On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:27 PM Jerry Geis <jerry.g...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:20 PM Ilia Mirkin <imir...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:17 PM Jerry Geis <jerry.g...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:06 PM Ilia Mirkin <imir...@alum.mit.edu> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:00 PM Jerry Geis <jerry.g...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> > lsmod | grep nouveau >> >> > >> >> > What dont I have ? >> >> >> >> nouveau :) >> >> >> >> Other than that, you got everything... >> >> >> >> Check dmesg for errors. >> >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> >> >> -ilia >> > >> > >> > I see this: >> > Oct 1 15:11:21 mediaport57 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1546]: (==) >> Matched nouveau as autoconfigured driver 0 >> >> This is not dmesg. This is some log file. Please look in dmesg. >> >> > Oct 1 15:11:23 mediaport57 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1546]: (**) >> VESA(0): Using "Shadow Framebuffer" >> >> X is using the VESA driver because nouveau (nor any other DRM driver) is >> loaded. >> >> > >> > So it seems like its loading .... but perhaps its not happy ???? >> > >> > What do I do ? >> >> Check dmesg for why nouveau didn't load. >> >> -ilia >> > > grep -i nouveau /var/log/dmesg > [ 19.934733] kernel: fb0: switching to nouveaufb from VESA VGA > [ 20.013197] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console > [ 20.013415] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: NVIDIA GT218 (0a8200b1) > [ 20.159472] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: bios: version 70.18.45.00.00 > [ 20.162603] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: fb: 512 MiB DDR3 > [ 21.552858] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: VRAM: 512 MiB > [ 21.552873] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: GART: 1048576 MiB > [ 21.552888] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: TMDS table version 2.0 > [ 21.552900] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: DCB version 4.0 > [ 21.552911] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 00: 01000302 > 00000030 > [ 21.552924] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 01: 02000300 > 00000000 > [ 21.552937] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 02: 02011362 > 00020010 > [ 21.552950] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 00: 00001030 > [ 21.552961] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 01: 00002161 > [ 21.568834] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: MM: using COPY for > buffer copies > [ 21.645206] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: allocated 1920x1080 fb: > 0x70000, bo (____ptrval____) > [ 21.648681] kernel: fbcon: nouveaudrmfb (fb0) is primary device > [ 21.837701] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: [drm] fb0: nouveaudrmfb frame > buffer device > [ 21.873290] kernel: [drm] Initialized nouveau 1.3.1 20120801 for > 0000:03:00.0 on minor 0 > > lsmod | grep nouveau > nouveau 1986560 30 > mxm_wmi 16384 1 nouveau > i2c_algo_bit 16384 1 nouveau > drm_ttm_helper 16384 1 nouveau > ttm 73728 2 drm_ttm_helper,nouveau > drm_kms_helper 237568 1 nouveau > drm 548864 25 drm_kms_helper,drm_ttm_helper,ttm,nouveau > video 53248 1 nouveau > wmi 32768 2 mxm_wmi,nouveau > > I took off ALL extra kernel command paramters - nothing specific to > nouveau - and I got better results. however - video is still dropping > frames. > > So progress. but still no good. > > Jerry > I see this error: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for nouveau/nva8_fuc084 failed I did apt-file search nva8_fuc084 and it did not return anything. jerry