<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/" /> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW --- - [NVE4] GPU lockup after opening many tabs in Chromium web browser" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73373#c9">Comment # 9</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW --- - [NVE4] GPU lockup after opening many tabs in Chromium web browser" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73373">bug 73373</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:mbarrera@gmx.com" title="Mario Barrera <mbarrera@gmx.com>"> Mario Barrera</a> <pre>(In reply to <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=73373#c8">comment #8</a>) > (In reply to <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=73373#c7">comment #7</a>) > > (In reply to <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=73373#c6">comment #6</a>) > > > Second, you can see if the situation improves with blob graph fw. Take a > > > look at <a href="http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/NVC0_Firmware/">http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/NVC0_Firmware/</a> for instructions > > > on how to get the fw. (Note you only need to go up to video fw. There are > > > other ways of getting the video fw should you want it.) You'll need to boot > > > with nouveau.NvGrUseFW=1 in order for the fw to be loaded. > > > > I have followed your instructions and installed the fw with the > > aur/nouveau-fw package in Archlinux and added the kernel option too, but the > > Pretty sure my instructions were to mmiotrace the blob by following the > instructions on that wiki page, not to install a firmware package that only > provides the video firmware. (And while I'm working on making my script also > extract the graph firmware, that's not ready yet.) On the bright side, you > should be able to use VDPAU for hw-accelerated decoding now. > > Oh, I also got the cmdline option wrong -- nouveau.config=NvGrUseFW=1 -- > sorry. I did not make the mmiotrace because I did not see any change or know if the firmware was actually loaded. Now I changed the option to nouveau.config=NvGrUseFW=1 and the graphics freeze when the nouveau module loads apparently.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>