[Nouveau] Bug or not?

Evan Foss evanfoss at gmail.com
Sun Feb 15 11:58:37 PST 2015 

The first grep of dmesg is for the apple info so you know exactly what
box I have. The second is to show that I am booting in EFI mode and
not some bogus bios compatibility thing. The third is to show the gmux
version. The fourth is to answer the question you actually asked.

$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 3.19.0 (root at turingatlarge) (gcc version 4.7.3 (Gentoo
4.7.3-r1 p1.4, pie-0.5.5) ) #3 SMP Sun Feb 15 01:09:59 EST 2015

------ $ dmesg|grep Apple
[    0.000000] efi: EFI v1.10 by Apple
[    0.000000] DMI: Apple Inc. MacBookPro9,1/Mac-4B7AC7E43945597E,
BIOS MBP91.88Z.00D3.B08.1208081132 08/08/2012
[    0.000000] ACPI: XSDT 0x000000008CD8E1C0 0000B4 (v01 APPLE
Apple00  00000000      01000013)
[    0.000000] ACPI: FACP 0x000000008CD8C000 0000F4 (v04 APPLE
Apple00  00000000 Loki 0000005F)
[    0.000000] ACPI: HPET 0x000000008CD8B000 000038 (v01 APPLE
Apple00  00000001 Loki 0000005F)
[    0.000000] ACPI: APIC 0x000000008CD8A000 0000BC (v02 APPLE
Apple00  00000001 Loki 0000005F)
[    0.000000] ACPI: SBST 0x000000008CD88000 000030 (v01 APPLE
Apple00  00000001 Loki 0000005F)
[    0.000000] ACPI: ECDT 0x000000008CD87000 000053 (v01 APPLE
Apple00  00000001 Loki 0000005F)
[    0.000000] ACPI: MCFG 0x000000008CD89000 00003C (v01 APPLE
Apple00  00000001 Loki 0000005F)
[    3.091740] usb 3-1.1: Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
[    3.410516] usb 4-1.8.1: Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
[    3.581141] usb 4-1.8.2: Manufacturer: Apple Computer, Inc.
[    3.777265] usb 4-1.8.3: Product: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
[    3.777267] usb 4-1.8.3: Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
[    3.782615] input: Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad as
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb4/4-1/4-1.8/4-1.8.3/4-1.8.3:1.0/0003:05AC:0252.0002/input/input13
[    3.833440] apple 0003:05AC:0252.0002: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.11
Keyboard [Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad] on
usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.8.3/input0
[    4.091248] apple 0003:05AC:0252.0003: hidraw2: USB HID v1.11
Device [Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad] on
usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.8.3/input1
[    4.319509] usb 4-1.8.1.3: Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
[    4.457798] input: Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver as
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb4/4-1/4-1.8/4-1.8.2/4-1.8.2:1.0/0003:05AC:8242.0001/input/input18
[    4.509982] appleir 0003:05AC:8242.0001: input,hiddev0,hidraw4: USB
HID v1.11 Device [Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver] on
usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.8.2/input0

------ $ dmesg|grep EFI
[    0.000000] efi: EFI v1.10 by Apple
[    1.220269] fb0: EFI VGA frame buffer device
[    2.619144] EFI Variables Facility v0.08 2004-May-17
[    4.205767] fb: switching to nouveaufb from EFI VGA

------ $ dmesg|grep gmux
[    2.739845] apple_gmux: Found gmux version 1.9.35 [classic]
[ 4299.386843] apple-gmux 00:03: System wakeup disabled by ACPI

------ ~/Documents $ dmesg|grep DSM
[    4.205710] ACPI Warning: \_SB_.PCI0.IGPU._DSM: Argument #4 type
mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package]
(20141107/nsarguments-95)
[    4.205724] ACPI: \_SB_.PCI0.IGPU: failed to evaluate _DSM
[    4.205739] ACPI Warning: \_SB_.PCI0.P0P2.GFX0._DSM: Argument #4
type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package]
(20141107/nsarguments-95)
[    4.205749] ACPI: \_SB_.PCI0.P0P2.GFX0: failed to evaluate _DSM

On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 5:13 AM, Pierre Moreau <pierre.morrow at free.fr> wrote:
> Does the Nvidia card auto-suspends or do you have to force it? If not, does
> it report some “failed to parse _DSM” message?
> I have a mid 2009 MBP who uses a different _DSM handles than the ones
> Nouveau currently supports, and I wondered if they were related to the Apple
> Gmux or not. So, as you have a different model with a different Nvidia card
> but still with an Apple Gmux, I’d be interested to know if you have the same
> _DSM handles as I have.
>
> Pierre
>
> On 15 Feb 2015, at 06:44, Evan Foss <evanfoss at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks again.
>
> This works and the heat has dropped substantially. It is still not as
> cool as I would like but this will do for now. I still need to file a
> bug report with the intel / apple gmux people.
>
> -Evan
>
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 10:42 PM, Evan Foss <evanfoss at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On the older kernel
>
> [    6.494956] nouveau  [     CLK][0000:01:00.0] 07: core 270-405 MHz
> memory 838 MHz
> [    6.494989] nouveau  [     CLK][0000:01:00.0] 0a: core 270-774 MHz
> memory 1560 MHz
> [    6.495015] nouveau  [     CLK][0000:01:00.0] 0e: core 270-774 MHz
> memory 4000 MHz
> [    6.495182] nouveau  [     CLK][0000:01:00.0] --: core 405 MHz memory 680
> MHz
>
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 10:35 PM, Evan Foss <evanfoss at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Because I am on a macbook the VBIOS might be wonky.
>
> I tried turning off nVidia and using intel. The result was a blank
> screen. I know other people had the same bug which was something to do
> with reprobing lvds?! I saw patches go by and every time I tried one
> the results were the same. fail. I was actually about to post a bug
> report to the intel (i915) people about it.
>
> I tried to work out how to get optimus to work. After trying several
> different sets of instructions I never found a working configuration
> and put it aside. I never used to use opengl but lately my pcb
> software has adopted it so my needs changed.
>
> I will get back to you with more results on this matter after I get
> the newer kernel up.
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 10:09 PM, Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Evan Foss <evanfoss at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have a side question which may be the subject of a future second bug
> report. I have been lurking on the nouveau mailing list for some time.
> I understand from various posts that the nvidia gpu clock speed right
> now is set to the lowest possible setting. Why does my machine run so
>
>
> Often but not always the case -- the clock speed is whatever the VBIOS
> leaves it in. For kepler, that is usually the lowest setting.
>
> much hotter in linux than macos? I turned off the intel graphics and
> the cpu clock is set to the lowest available speed.
>
>
> You should instead turn off the nvidia graphics and run off intel --
> intel is much less power-hungry than nvidia, even at the lowest
> clocks. If it's an optimus setup, the nvidia gpu should automatically
> power off until needed (either because some display is connected to
> it, or for offloading).
>
>
> How do I get a display of the GPU clocking speeds?
>
>
> You should see it in dmesg... look for CLK lines. The ones with -- (or
> AC/DC) will show the current setting. Or boot with nouveau.pstate=1
> and you should have a /sys/class/drm/card*/device/pstate file.
>
>  -ilia
>
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