[Nouveau] GeForce 8400 GS (follow-up)

[Fernando Negro]

Hello again, everyone.


I'm the same "Fernando Negro" that sent a message entitled "GeForce 8400
GS", three days ago. (
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/2013-October/014660.html)

I'm sorry for having to open a new topic, in here... But, due to all the
experiments with installing new distros and drivers on my computer, I ended
up loosing access to the e-mail account that I used to send the previous
message. And, so, I'm writing again, with a new e-mail address...

Responding to everyone that responded to my message... (Ilia, Emil, and
poma...)

My particular card is a PCI Express "Gainward" GeForce 8400 GS, 512MB DDR3,
passively cooled (with only a heat sink). And, not the ASUS card, with the
same NVIDIA chip.

I have no fan in my card.

And, since I already took a fan from inside my computer, because of the
noise it made, I'm most worried about having a component inside of it that
may overheat it, overall. (Especially, since I leave in a country where
it's pretty hot in the Summer...)

I was not aware that thermal management was already available in nouveau.
So, I guess that could solve the possible problem that I foresee - since
that, I don't "exercise" (and consequently heat) my card a lot...

The thing is, that, although I thought I had already run nouveau in it, I
was, after all, only running a generic vesa driver, every time before I
installed the proprietary drivers... And, I suppose that the wrong idea I
had, of having been able to run nouveau already, was either: due to error
messages that appeared, before I added the "nomodeset" parameter in the
kernel line (that I didn't know that made it impossible for nouveau to
load); or due to having used a previous NVIDIA card that, maybe, could
already run nouveau, before it started malfunctioning...

Anyway, I decided to finally seriously try running the nouveau driver in
it. But, after many failed attempts, I was, unfortunately, not able to...
And, I suspect the main cause for it to be the particular brand of my card,
that doesn't seem to be very good. (Since that, I know of other people that
have the same NVIDIA chip, and that are able to run nouveau on their
cards...)

The report of my experience, for anyone interested in it, can be read here:
http://trisquel.info/en/forum/nouveau-mi-eq-overflowing


Thank you very much, all of you, for your help.
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