On 26/01/15 22:54, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
3.19 brings modesetting support for GM204 chips, but no acceleration.
What this means is that we can display things on the screen, but can't
use the GPU to perform any computation of any sort. This is a
perfectly usable experience, since you'll end up using the llvmpipe
driver for the light 3d-rendering required by gnome-shell and the
such, however it will be insufficent for any gaming.
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 2:34 PM, super_7b <[email protected]> wrote:
On 26/01/15 20:11, Tobias Klausmann wrote:
On 25.01.2015 21:40, super_7b wrote:
Hi,
I took this issue to the Fedora forum initially, but no-one there has
been able to offer any guidance, so I have decided to come to the
nouveau community directly.
I was running a KDE desktop under Fedora 21 successfully, including
the ability to use a direct text login on an older card (GXT 560 Ti)
with an entirely stock Fedora, fully updated.
I simply replaced the old card with an Asus GTX 970 and re-booted.
I run with the "rhgb quiet" option removed from grub2, so I can see
all that happens up to the graphical login screen and I noticed that
the re-boot was different at the point at which the screen changed
from a basic (80x25 ?) text to a higher resolution (128X50 ?). This no
longer happened and I got a simple blank screen.
If I wait, the graphical boot screen eventually appears and I can
login to KDE successfully and run my desktop apps as normal. If I
switch consoles (e.g. Ctrl-Alt-F2) for a text login, I get a black
screen.
The last visible thing on my boot screen before the black is something
like "fb: switching to nouveaufb from EFI VGA".
When I looked at the dmesg output, lsmod and lshw, it appears that the
nouveau driver does not correctly detect and initialise the GTX 970.
Have I a configuration error, or is there something not working in
nouveau?
I attach logs from dmesg, lshw and lsmod and I can supply more data if
needed.
BR
Mick
Hi,
the 9xx series is rather new and is not supported by nouveau for now
(modesetting is in 3.19rcX imho). Concerning acceleration: Nvidia needs
to provide signed firmwares for those cards under a license appropriate
to include in an open source project, until that happens, there wont be
substantial improvements.
Greetings
Tobias
Hi Tobias,
Thanks for the reply. Acceleration is not an issue, but no support for text
mode is, 8^(.
Does your remark about 3.19rcX refer to kernel 3.19? I just ran the Fedora
updates and it has installed 3.18.3-201. If I need to wait for 3.19, I guess
I need to be patient for a while longer.
I am assuming that 3.19 will bring text support and basic graphics?
BR
Mick
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Hi Ilia,
Thanks. That is good to know. I don't game on Linux, just desktop stuff
and coding. I will be gaming on Windows (dual boot on this machine),
which is why I bought the card and I am sure the card will be well
supported there.
BR
Mick
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