[Nouveau] [Bug 94725] Nouveau driver fails to load on GM204

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94725

--- Comment #3 from Rashed Abdel-Tawab <rashed at linux.com> ---
(In reply to Ilia Mirkin from comment #2)
> In addition to the runpm=0 thing, please ensure that you have the
> appropriate firmware installed for this GPU - it should be in
> linux-firmware.git by now (nvidia/*). I don't see a message about nouveaufb,
> which could be due to how you configured your kernel, but it could also be
> because you don't have the firmware, and the user helper is kicking in and
> waiting 60 seconds for it to fail out, so nouveau's not fully done loading
> by the time the runpm stuff kicks in. Just a theory.

I have the gm20x firmware from the linux-firmware repo installed.

(In reply to Pierre Moreau from comment #1)
> Nouveau is successfully loaded on your laptop, but it seems to fail when it
> tries to wake up the NVIDIA GPU (if you look at the dmesg you linked, around
> 11sec, the NVIDIA GPU goes to sleep). You could try booting with
> `nouveau.runpm=0` on the kernel command line, and see if you still get the
> issue.
> Do you have any dmesg from when it hangs?

I'll try that in a bit as well as try to get a dmesg when it hangs (not at my
computer ATM) I see "NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s!"
when it hangs during a logout/shutdown but that's not particularly helpful.

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