Does it print anything else before that?
There's definitely some dubious endian-unsafe code in the later
nouveau stuff. For example, nvkm_falcon_v1_read_dmem seems to make
assumptions about CPU being LE, based on a quick read of the code, and
I would expect the file header parsing stuff does too.
I’m having trouble getting my GTX 1050 Ti working in Debian Sid. This machine
is a PowerMac G5, 2.3 GHz Dual Core. I’m using a Quadro FX 4500 as well and it
seems to work as expected. I’ve installed the firmware-linux-nonfree package,
which seems to have the required firmware for the GTX 1050