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Re: Debian 11, Nvidia Quadro P400, 2xiiyama 2560x1440, nvidia driver



On Mon, 6 Sep 2021, Felix Miata wrote:

FOSS drivers and xrandr work for me:
# xrandr --output DP-1 --mode 2560x1440 --primary --rotate left --output DP-2 --mode 2560x1080 --rotate left --right-of DP-1

Graphics:
 Device-1: NVIDIA GF119 [NVS 310] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: nouveau

I've been trying many combinations of xorg.conf variants and output connections. I found a setup which starts correctly with one 2880x2560 screen across two 2560x1440 monitors in portrait mode.

                      ,-------------------,
 Left monitor   DP-4  3                   |
 Right monitor  DP-0  2   Quadro P400     |
                DP-2  1                   |
                      MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM Motherboard

But this is unstable. Without activity on my part the screens blank, and when I hit a key, the setup is now 1440x2560 on the left monitor only. File /var/log/Xorg.0.log reports:

 [  7706.762] (WW) NVIDIA(0): MetaMode "DP-0:nvidia-auto-select" could not be re-validated
 [  7706.762] (WW) NVIDIA(0):     against the current hardware configuration; removing.
 [  7706.762] (WW) NVIDIA(0): MetaMode "DP-0:2560x1440_70" could not be re-validated against
 [  7706.762] (WW) NVIDIA(0):     the current hardware configuration; removing.
 [  7706.762] (WW) NVIDIA(0): MetaMode "DP-0:2048x1280" could not be re-validated against
 [  7706.762] (WW) NVIDIA(0):     the current hardware configuration; removing.
 ...
 [  7706.762] (WW) NVIDIA(0): MetaMode "DP-0:640x480_60_0" could not be re-validated against
 [  7706.762] (WW) NVIDIA(0):     the current hardware configuration; removing.

There seems to be a basic instability in Quadro P400 + Nvidia 460.91.03. I have seen spontaneous changes from 1440x2560 to 2560x900 or 480x640, spontaneous rotations, and refusals to return from power-saving blanking. Ctl-Alt-Keypad-+ has no effect

I followed your example, bought an Nvidia GF119 [NVS 310] for 41€, removed all the nvidia packages, removed xorg.conf, installed the NVS 310 and restarted the machine.

I got a perfect 2880x2560 screen across the two monitors. I can slide windows from one monitor to another. but I didn't get much work done.

nouveau froze after 11 minutes.  dmesg reports;

 [  145.357954] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: firmware: failed to load nouveau/nvd9_fuc084 (-2)
 [  145.357959] firmware_class: See https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware for information about missing firmware
 [  145.357962] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for nouveau/nvd9_fuc084 failed with error -2
 [  145.357973] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: firmware: failed to load nouveau/nvd9_fuc084d (-2)
 [  145.357975] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for nouveau/nvd9_fuc084d failed with error -2
 [  145.357977] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: msvld: unable to load firmware data
 [  145.357979] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: msvld: init failed, -19

I searched at https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents for nvd9_fuc084 but found nothing.

I downloaded file firmware.tar.gz from
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/bullseye/current/
but couldn't find any nvidia firmware.

Where can I get the required nouveau/nvd9_fuc084 ?

Roger

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