<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi Martin,<br></div>if you refer to my kernel version. 3.10.17 is the latest, stable version in the official gentoo repository for the amd64 architeture. See here<br><br>[4] <a href="https://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources?full_cat">https://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources?full_cat</a><br>
<br></div><div>As long as I do not miss any features, I stay with the stable version.<br></div><div><br></div>Hence, if I understand you correctly, there are kernel version (newer than some unknown point in time) that already include the firmware? If this is the case, someone who knows the exact kernel version should mention that point on<br>
<br>[1] <a href="http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/InstallDRM/" target="_blank">http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/InstallDRM/</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/VideoAcceleration/" target="_blank">http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/VideoAcceleration/</a><br>[3] <a href="https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480832" target="_blank">https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480832</a><br>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">and update the information.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Matthias<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2013/12/12 Martin Peres <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin.peres@free.fr" target="_blank">martin.peres@free.fr</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 12/12/2013 08:32, Matthias Nagel wrote:<br>
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Hello,<br>
<br>
I run the Gentoo Linux distribution and use a self-compiled Linux 3.10.17 kernel. According to<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/InstallDRM/" target="_blank">http://nouveau.freedesktop.<u></u>org/wiki/InstallDRM/</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/VideoAcceleration/" target="_blank">http://nouveau.freedesktop.<u></u>org/wiki/VideoAcceleration/</a><br>
<br>
I need the original firmware from the binary driver in order to sucessully use DRM and to use VDPAU video acceleration. I used the python script from [2] and I had a look at the ebuild from<br>
<br>
[3] <a href="https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480832" target="_blank">https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_<u></u>bug.cgi?id=480832</a><br>
<br>
to extract the firmware and to place it at /lib/firmware/nouveau. But I do not see any dmesg output about loading the firmware. I do not see any dmesg output about nouveau failing to do so either. I neither do no see any "nouveau <pci id>: firmware: requesting nouveau/" in my kernel output.<br>
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Anyway VDPAU seems to work. If I call mplayer with "-vo vdpau -vc ffmpeg12vdpau,...", I don't get any error message and my CPU load drops from 30% to 7% for a recent mpeg transport stream 1080p video.<br>
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In conclusion, do I still need the firmware? Do the information given at [1], [2] still apply or are they outdated?<br>
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Thanks for your first hand investigation. To be honest, I can't remember which kernel provides a working-enough open source pgraph fw.<br>
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As you figured out, it works for you, but you should update your kernel, there is no point in staying on old Linux releases, at least Nouveau-wise. If there was a regression, let us know instead of staying on an old kernel.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Martin Peres<br>
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