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. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
