Re: Mate Desktop crashes
Hello,
On Tue, 2024-01-23 at 14:24 -0700, Stan Johnson wrote:
> On my PowerMac G5, I had to replace a failed Radeon card with a low-end
> Nvidia card, and I was no longer able to test Debian powerpc64 kernels
> because the kernel was missing the needed CONFIG options:
>
> *** Aug 31, 2023 kernel (doesn't work on my G5) ***
>
> $ fgrep -i nvidia config-6.4.0-4-powerpc64
> CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_NVIDIA=y
> # CONFIG_I2C_NVIDIA_GPU is not set
> # NVidia media platform drivers
>
> *** Dec 22, 2023 (also doesn't work) ***
>
> $ fgrep -i nvidia config-6.6.8-powerpc64
> CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_NVIDIA=y
> # CONFIG_I2C_NVIDIA_GPU is not set
> # NVidia media platform drivers
> # CONFIG_HID_NVIDIA_SHIELD is not set
>
> Compiling a custom kernel with the following CONFIG options works:
>
> $ fgrep -i nvidia config-6.5.1-ppc64
> # CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_NVIDIA is not set
> # CONFIG_I2C_NVIDIA_GPU is not set
> CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA=y
> CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA_I2C=y
> # CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA_DEBUG is not set
> CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA_BACKLIGHT=y
>
> $ dmesg | grep -i nvidia
> [ 0.264634] nvidiafb: Device ID: 10de0321
> [ 0.264666] nvidiafb 0000:f0:10.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console
> [ 0.285134] nvidiafb: CRTC0 analog not found
> [ 0.309133] nvidiafb: CRTC1 analog found
> [ 1.153130] nvidiafb: EDID found from BUS2
> [ 1.153154] nvidiafb: CRTC 1 appears to have a CRT attached
> [ 1.153162] nvidiafb: Using CRT on CRTC 1
> [ 1.157999] nvidiafb: PCI nVidia NV32 framebuffer (64MB @ 0x98000000)
That's the obsolete framebuffer driver though and not the nouveau DRM driver.
I'm not sure how long framebuffer drivers will be continue to be available
in the kernel, as far as I know they're slated for removal.
Adrian
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