On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 3:25 AM, Stefan Huehner <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 06:59:25PM -0400, Ilia Mirkin wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Ilia Mirkin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> >> >> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 9:52 PM, Ilia Mirkin <[email protected]> >> >>> wrote: >> >>>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> >> >>>> wrote: >> >>>>> My new GTX 960 (GM206, I think) says: >> >>>>> >> >>>>> [ 10.329351] nouveau ![ DEVICE][0000:09:00.0] unknown Maxwell >> >>>>> chipset >> >>>>> [ 10.329355] nouveau E[ DEVICE][0000:09:00.0] unknown chipset, >> >>>>> 0x126010a1 >> >>>>> [ 10.329356] nouveau E[ DRM] failed to create 0x00000080, -22 >> >>>>> [ 10.330129] nouveau: probe of 0000:09:00.0 failed with error -22 >> >>>>> >> >>>>> Hacking up nouveau so that it treats it like a GM204 doesn't work. >> >>>> >> >>>> What happens if you just drop the 0x126 next to the 0x124 in >> >>>> engine/device/gm100.c ? >> >>>> >> >>>>> Are there any near-term plans to support this card? >> >>>> >> >>>> I don't know of anyone with the hw... maybe Ben got one? If you're >> >>>> interested in helping, the kernel logs from the above experiment + an >> >>>> mmiotrace of the blob drivers (see >> >>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/MMIOTracing) + vbios (see >> >>>> http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/DumpingVideoBios/). >> >>>> >> >>>> I assume you're on a recent kernel? You need 3.19 for the GM204 stuff >> >>>> to work in the first place. >> >>> >> >>> Neither 3.19 nor 4.0-rcsomething works. >> >>> >> >>> I put an mmio trace (X startup and glxgears) and a vbios dump here: >> >>> >> >>> http://web.mit.edu/luto/www/GM206/ >> >> >> >> Stefan sent proper patches to get nouveau going on his GM206, which >> >> will make it into the next 4.0-rc. Here is a tree that is destined >> >> towards drm-fixes: >> >> >> >> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/linux-2.6/log/?h=linux-4.0 >> >> >> >> Let us know if it makes the card work. (Definitely no acceleration >> >> without signed firmware for now though.) >> > >> > The driver loads and seems to work. >> >> Excellent! >> >> > The nouveau X driver doesn't load, though. >> >> Yeah, xf86-video-nouveau has no support for the GM20x family? Note >> that even if it did load, you wouldn't get any acceleration -- may as >> well just use the 'xf86-video-modesetting' driver. >> > > Hi guys, > i did sent a patch to add GM206 to the ddx also but looks like it got missed > you can find it here. > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/2015-February/020144.html > > But as said no acceleration yet.
I'll probably stick with the binary driver until there's acceleration. I have too many pixels on my monitor for reasonable unaccelerated compositing performance, I think. Thanks for bringing this up, though! Working modesetting is a *huge* improvement over vesafb. --Andy _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
