[Nouveau] acr: failed to load firmware with Kernel 5.6. Kernel 5.5 works just fine.

[Zeno Davatz]

On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 6:59 PM Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> Ben -- probably the ACR changes in 5.6 don't fall back nicely anymore
> when there's no firmware? The load shouldn't be failed, just GR
> disabled...
>
> Zeno -- if you grab linux-firmware, it should be all better. Not sure
> if you're missing it on purpose or by accident.

Thank you, Ilia

I will try that on my Gentoo/Funtoo machine now. So far linux-firmware
was not needed with Kernel 5.5, so it was not installed on my machine.

[ please CC me ]

Best
Zeno