On 10/01/14 12:36, Fernando Negro wrote: > Hi everyone. > Hi Fernando,
> > I'm a big Free Software enthusiast and, therefore, I would very much like to > use the nouveau free driver, instead of the proprietary one. > > My problem is that, looking for the cheapest option available, when I needed > to buy a new graphics card, 2 years ago, I decided for a model from a brand > that I had never heard of - called "Gainward" - because I thought it had a > better price/quality relationship than its ASUS equivalent with the same > Nvidia chip. > > My specific graphics cards is this one: > http://www.gainward.com/main/product/vga/pro/p00472/p00472_datasheet_17204da7fe6add60c.pdf?s=125 > > Because I used to use a not completely free GNU/Linux distribution at the > time, where one could easily install the proprietary driver, right after > installing the distro, I've always run this last driver on it, and managed to > find a version where it would run well. > > But, now wanting to migrate to a completely free GNU/Linux distribution, I > now notice better the problem that I have, with this specific graphics card, > where I can't even make the nouveau drivers run on it, let alone run well... > > I've already made several tests, with different kernels, and there's really > no way that I can make this graphics card work with the nouveau driver. (My > results here: > http://trisquel.info/en/forum/nouveau-mi-eq-overflowing#comment-43762) And, > the problem that appears, is what is listed here: > http://trisquel.info/en/forum/nouveau-mi-eq-overflowing > > And, after learning, in this mailing-list, that people who use this card's > ASUS equivalent with the same Nvidia chip, don't have any of the problems > that I have, I now know that this is a particular type/brand of card, or > particular graphics card, that is not currently supported by the nouveau > driver. > > > So, my question is... > > Knowing that Free Software is mainly developed to run on the most used type > of computer components, and not being, apparently, my graphics card, one of > this type of most used components, do the people here, in this mailing-list, > know if, or think that, there's ever going to be some effort made to make the > nouveau driver run on the type of graphics card that I have? > > (What I want to know, in practical terms, is if it's worth keeping this > graphics card for some possible use in the Future, when it will be supported, > or if it's better for me to just sell it to someone who's not as interested > as me in using only Free Software?) > > > Thank you, all, in advance, for your answers. > > And thank you very much, also, all of you, for the *great results* that I've > already witnessed on other graphics cards. > Now that was a lengthy email :) With that said as most people working on nouveau are volunteers/hobbyists and as such we tend to work on what interests us. This does not mean that noone will _ever_ look your problem. I would recommend that you go through the FAQ[1], Troubleshooting[2] and Bugs[3] wiki. >From a quick glance I can see a few of interesting bits * there is some missmatch between the reported amount of VRAM vs the one calculated [ 2.132258] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: memory controller reports 512MiB VRAM [ 2.132264] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: we calculated 1024MiB VRAM * shortly after you're getting MEM_FAULT/IB_EMPTY errors (?related to the actual amount of vram your card has?) and last but not least * you're using an _ancient_ kernel Thus first and foremost I would advice that you experiment with various kernels (older and newer) and (hopefully) you'll find one that does not produce "PFIFO_DMA_PUSHER" style of messages. You can easily check that even without X, just login in VT and look at your dmesg output. Good luck Emil [1] http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FAQ/ [2] http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/TroubleShooting/ [3] http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Bugs/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Nouveau mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau > _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
