[Nouveau] Happy Easter! A gift, someone?

[Martin Peres]

Le 24/04/2011 15:14, Robert Kaiser a écrit :
> 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
Hi Robert,

If the card is problematic, we clearly should get it. I'm only working 
on power management, but if no-one is interested in it by the end of the 
week, I would gladly accept this card as I have no nv4X and would like 
to make sure my PM code is working on it. I may also try to fix the 
instability problem, but only when I make sure the problem isn't related 
to temperature.

Thanks for doing this,
Martin Peres