[Nouveau] Nouveau on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

2021-10-01 Thread Jerry Geis
I am trying to get Nouveau running and also playing video. lspci | grep VGA shows 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [ION] (rev a2) syslog shows nouveau loaded But video performance is SLOW - dropping frames. have I missed something ? How do I get better video

Re: [Nouveau] Nouveau on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

2021-10-01 Thread Jerry Geis
On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:27 PM Jerry Geis wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:20 PM Ilia Mirkin wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:17 PM Jerry Geis wrote: >> > On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:06 PM Ilia Mirkin >> wrote: >> >> >> >

Re: [Nouveau] Nouveau on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

2021-10-01 Thread Jerry Geis
On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 4:48 PM Jerry Geis wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 4:41 PM Ilia Mirkin wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 4:29 PM Jerry Geis wrote: >> > yes very weird on the sound. Using analog speakers at the moment >> > I got no test soun

Re: [Nouveau] Nouveau on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

2021-10-01 Thread Jerry Geis
On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:06 PM Ilia Mirkin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:00 PM Jerry Geis wrote: > > lsmod | grep nouveau > > > > What dont I have ? > > nouveau :) > > Other than that, you got everything... > > Check dmesg for errors. > > Cheer

Re: [Nouveau] Nouveau on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

2021-10-01 Thread Jerry Geis
On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 4:41 PM Ilia Mirkin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 4:29 PM Jerry Geis wrote: > > yes very weird on the sound. Using analog speakers at the moment > > I got no test sound - and no video sound after getting nouveau to run > correctly > > I

Re: [Nouveau] Nouveau on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

2021-10-01 Thread Jerry Geis
On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 4:15 PM Ilia Mirkin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:58 PM Jerry Geis wrote: > > > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:40 PM Ilia Mirkin wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:36 PM Jerry Geis wrote: > >> >

Re: [Nouveau] Nouveau on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

2021-10-01 Thread Jerry Geis
On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:40 PM Ilia Mirkin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:36 PM Jerry Geis wrote: > > > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:27 PM Jerry Geis wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >> On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:20 PM Ilia Mirkin

Re: [Nouveau] Nouveau on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

2021-10-01 Thread Jerry Geis
On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:20 PM Ilia Mirkin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:17 PM Jerry Geis wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:06 PM Ilia Mirkin wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:00 PM Jerry Geis wrote: > >> > lsmod | grep nouveau > >&g

Re: [Nouveau] Nouveau on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

2021-10-01 Thread Jerry Geis
the current settings. Echo'ing any one of the xx's into > that file will attempt to switch to a different performance level. > Sometimes it works, other times it kills the GPU until you reboot. Use > with care. > > Cheers, > > -ilia > > On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 11:01 AM Jerry

Re: [Nouveau] Nouveau on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

2021-10-01 Thread Jerry Geis
On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 2:44 PM Ilia Mirkin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 2:29 PM Jerry Geis wrote: > > Thanks perhaps this is part of the problem: > > ls -l /sys/kernel/debug/dri/ > > total 0 > > This indicates that nouveau is not loaded. (Or loaded and failed

Re: [Nouveau] Ubuntu 20.04 and vlc

2021-11-05 Thread Jerry Geis
On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 11:02 AM Ilia Mirkin wrote: > Hey Jerry, > > I'd look in the kernel log to see what's up. Perhaps the GPU hangs? > > Cheers, > > -ilia > > On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 10:42 AM Jerry Geis wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > I

[Nouveau] Ubuntu 20.04 and vlc

2021-11-05 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi All, I am using Ubuntu 20.04 with VLC... normally the box boots up runs an plays videos just fien with about 20% usage for VLC (celeron and or intel Atom hardware). After some time - day or two of playing videos. Something happens. The CPU usage jumps way up like 120% kind of usage. Like the