<div dir="ltr"><div><div>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/">http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/InstallDRM/</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/VideoAcceleration/">http://nouveau.freedesktop.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">https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_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>
<br>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>
<br></div>In conclusion, do I still need the firmware? Do the information given at [1], [2] still apply or are they outdated?<br><br></div>Thank you, Matthias<br><div><div><div><br>--<br>Matthias Nagel<br>Parkstraße 27<br>
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