[Nouveau] Question about NV18 and GBM library.

[Lucas Stach]

Am Mittwoch, den 25.04.2012, 12:34 -0300 schrieb gabriel muguerza:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a geforce 4mx 440 agp 8x, and I'm trying to use the GBM
> library, 
> (as jbarnes in:
> http://virtuousgeek.org/blog/index.php/jbarnes/2011/10/
> and David Hermann in KMSCON: https://github.com/dvdhrm/kmscon), 
> without success.
> 
> when I try to create a gbm_device, I get: (below the code.)
> 
> nouveau_drm_screen_create: unknown chipset nv18
> dri_init_screen_helper: failed to create pipe_screen
> loaded /usr/lib/gbm/pipe_nouveau.so
> nouveau_drm_screen_create: unknown chipset nv18
> failed to load driver: nouveau
> 
> 
> My question is:
> Is this not supported by the driver?,
> It's a GBM problem? or am I doing something wrong?
> 
Yep, you are right, your GPU is simply too old. GBM is only supported
with the nouveau gallium drivers, which start with the nv30 generation.
The nouveau_vieux driver for your card does not support GBM.

-- Lucas