> -----Original Message----- > From: J. Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> > Sent: Monday, November 16, 2020 01:26 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-firmware for GT520 > > On 12 November 2020 08:57:37 CET, Raffaele BELARDI > <raffaele.bela...@st.com> wrote: > >According to [1] my Nvidia GT520 needs FW for VP4.2 video acceleration > >support. I found there is a Gentoo package which seems to provide the > >Nvidia FW. According to [2] my card should be part of NVC0 family > >(Fermi), in particular code name NVD9 (GF119). Nvidia-firmware contains > >binaries with names that somehow resemble the nvc0 of the family name > >(e.g. nvc0_bsp, nvc0_fuc084, nvco_fuc085, nvc0_ppp...) but I am not at > >all sure how should I use them. > > > >Should I embed them in the kernel as I do for e.g. the AMD drivers? > >How do I verify they are correctly loaded when needed? > > > >Thanks, > > > >Raffaele > > > >[1] https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/VideoAcceleration.html > >[2] https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/CodeNames.html > > Have you tried simply installing the firmware and nvidia drivers and see if it > works? > > Normally drivers are expected to load any firmware it needs that it can find. > The location of the firmware is pretty standard. >
I have both embedded them in the kernel and installed in the default location (/lib/firmware/nouveau). I just wanted to make sure they are being loaded when required, I did not find any reference in the syslog nor in the xorg log. raffaele
