[Nouveau] Happy Easter! A gift, someone?

[Robert Kaiser]

Hi nouveau-team!

First of all, Happy Easter! But what would Easter be without some gifts? ;-)

The truth is, I upgraded my system recently, and even if that means that 
I moved to a manufacturer-provided open graphics stack, I still want to 
help nouveau somewhat, if useful and possible.

Because of that, I'd be willing to send my old graphics card to a 
nouveau developer, given that may result in some work to make stuff like 
that work better (I'm not sure how much that generation of cards is 
still in the plans of anyone to work on, but let's see).

The card in question is a "ASUS EN7600GT 2DHT Silent", which has a 
GeForce 7600 GT chip (NV4B) and a somewhat large passive cooling system 
to not require any active cooling.

Of course, that didn't match ideally with nouveau not supporting any 
power management on NV4*, so it ran at pretty high temperatures all the 
time since I switched away from the binary driver.

Probably because of that, the heads of 3 electrolyte capacitors on the 
card are slightly curved out - but it looked to me like the card would 
still work as "well" as it did all the time before - that is, it had 
massive problems with nouveau all the time and only worked somewhat 
usefully for longer periods of time when the kernel was launched with 
nouveau.noaccel=1 - which is not ideal, of course.

So, if anyone's around who wants to play with that card and try to 
improve nouveau working with it, tell me where to send it and I will. 
You get it for free, I'm also playing for sending it to you. As I'm in 
Vienna, Austria, Europe, I'd prefer to send to Europe, but I should in 
theory be able to send anywhere on this Earth (sorry, no luck atm when 
you're based on Mars or a different solar system).

Robert Kaiser