[Nouveau] Direct Firmware load error

[Ilia Mirkin]

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 3:08 PM, pete nikolic <pg.nikolic1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Folks
>
> Getting a considerable number of these showing up  at the moment
>
>
> [  619.350185] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load failed with error -2
> [  619.350193] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Falling back to user helper
> [  619.352536] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load failed with error -2
> [  619.352543] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Falling back to user helper
> [  619.354243] nouveau E[    PBSP][0000:01:00.0] unable to load firmware data
> [  619.354253] nouveau E[    PBSP][0000:01:00.0] init failed, -12

This is from the video decoding acceleration unit. See
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/VideoAcceleration/ for more info.
Long story short, if you want to use vdpau, you need the firmware.

  -ilia