Bug#689178: No support for modern nVidia cards (GT 610) - System unusable!
On 2012-10-01 14:30 +0200, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Kees de Jong wrote:
>
>> I was able to recreate the error by reverting back to the Nouveau
>> driver. It still crashes with the 3.2.0-3-amd64 kernel, but it works
>> with the 3.5-trunk-amd64 kernel. Although I'm only able to use the
>> 'fall-back' mode of Gnome 3.
>
> Nice. What happens if you boot with the parameter "nouveau.noaccel=0"
> appended to the kernel command line?
>
> I'd also be interested in full "dmesg" output (as an attachment) from
> booting the 3.5.y kernel and starting X with "drm.debug=0xe" and
> "log_buf_len=16M" parameters appended to the kernel command line
> (without noaccel=0).
>
> By the way, looks like I was confused before --- your card is an nvd9,
> not nve0.
And that's the reason for the missing acceleration, there is still no
working free microcode for NVD9. :-( Search for "case 0xd9:" in
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_state.c.
It is possible to extract firmware from the blob, but the procedure is
rather complicated¹.
Cheers,
Sven
¹ http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/NVC0_Firmware
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