[Nouveau] NVS 4200M support

[Emil Velikov]

On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:10:37 -0000, Dmitry A. Ashkadov  
<dmitry.ashkadov at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I have Nvidia NVS 4200M installed on my laptop. Does nouveau support it?
> If I change video to Discrete card in BIOS, then nouveau (version  
> 0.0.16) logs:
>> nouveau: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -22
> and
>> [drm] failed to open device
>> No devices detected
>
> Thank you!

Hello Dmitry

The card mentioned is supported (as of kernel 3.2), although your  
experience may vary

Can you please try kernel 3.2 or nouveau development tree [1]
Take a note that external firmware is required [2]

Any further problems please feel free to file a bugreport [3]


Thanks

[1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/linux-2.6/
[2] http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/InstallDRM#Firmware
[3] http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Bugs

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