Re: Issue with i915 PSR module option
On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 07:22:41PM +0100, l0f4r0@tuta.io wrote:
> Hi Reco, Didier,
...
> $ sudo cat /sys/module/i915/parameters/enable_psr
> 0
>
> => Thank you :)
You're welcome.
> I suppose I'm expected now to download my potential missing firmwares
> for module i915
> from https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/i915 and
> move them to /lib/firmware/i915?
Depends on your card. Intel GPU Gen 6 (Skylake, 2015) and higher usually
require it. Anything older works happily without any firmware.
And it's preferred to install "firmware-misc-nonfree" package ([1])to
random downloads from Internet.
> Why aren't they distributed via traditional Debian packages?
They are, but they aren't in main archive (non-libre, no source code).
Reco
[1] https://packages.debian.org/buster/firmware-misc-nonfree
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