[Nouveau] newbe guidance for Alienware 13

[Ilia Mirkin]

GP106 is supported, you must be using an older kernel (since yours
says "unknown chipset"). Note that mobile chips, esp GP10x's, appear
to have a ton of issues with runtime pm, so YMMV.

On Sat, Aug 4, 2018 at 7:37 PM, don fisher <hdf3 at comcast.net> wrote:
> I had desire for a light laptop, so purchased an Alienware 13. I am
> currently unable to display on the external monitor, leaving me with the
> small 13" display. I am ignorant of how to proceed. I assume the Nouveau
> driver is being used, but am not sure. I it Intel or Nouveau?  When I boot
> the following appears in dmesg:
>   nouveau: detected PR support, will not use DSM
>   nouveau 0000:01:00.0: enabling device (0006 -> 0007)
>   nouveau 0000:01:00.0: unknown chipset (136000a1)
>   nouveau: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -12
>
> If I do an lsmod | nouveau i get:
> 101:nouveau              1691648  0
> 103:mxm_wmi                16384  1 nouveau
> 104:i2c_algo_bit           16384  2 i915,nouveau
> 107:drm_kms_helper        167936  2 i915,nouveau
> 111:ttm                   110592  1 nouveau
> 117:drm                   397312  6 ttm,i915,drm_kms_helper,nouveau
> 118:wmi                    16384  3 dell_wmi,mxm_wmi,nouveau
> 119:video                  45056  3 i915,dell_wmi,nouveau
> 120:button                 16384  2 i915,nouveau
>
> This shows the nouveau driver and the Intel i915 driver. Which is running
> the display, and how can I  control it?
>
> The device from lspci is:
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP106M [GeForce GTX
> 1060 Mobile] (rev a1)
>
> Please advise if there is a path available.
>
> Don
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