[Nouveau] nVidia GT218M [GeForce 315M] issues on kUbuntu 17.04 x86-64.

[Ilia Mirkin]

Generically, yes, the hardware is supported.

On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 11:42 PM,  <ygrishin-lists at mail2.ca> wrote:
> I will update the thread as soon as I get the hardware back. It was
> something serious like artifacts or no video in X so that I had to resort to
> proprietary drivers.
> So the question is whether this hardware is supported or not.
>
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> On 2017-09-18 21:31, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
>>
>> What seems to be the problem? I think you forgot to include a
>> description of the issues you're seeing.
>>
>> On Sep 18, 2017 11:23 PM, <ygrishin-lists at mail2.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello looks like the device is not supported, the logs are as
>>> follows:
>>>
>>> ---
>>> # dmesg | grep nouve
>>> [    2.789899] fb: switching to nouveaufb from VESA VGA
>>> [    2.790060] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: NVIDIA GT218 (0a8d00b1)
>>> [    2.815596] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: version 70.18.7f.00.14
>>> [    2.816421] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: OOB 1 01452301 01452301
>>> [    2.816427] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: OOB 1 22234d20 22234d20
>>> [    2.816431] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: OOB 1 22234d20 22234d20
>>> [    2.816434] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: OOB 1 22234d20 22234d20
>>> [    2.817560] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fb: 1024 MiB DDR3
>>> [    2.868651] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: VRAM: 1024 MiB
>>> [    2.868652] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: GART: 1048576 MiB
>>> [    2.868655] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: TMDS table version 2.0
>>> [    2.868657] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB version 4.0
>>> [    2.868659] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 00: 01000323
>>> 00010034
>>> [    2.868661] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 01: 02014300
>>> 00000000
>>> [    2.868662] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 02: 02021362
>>> 00020010
>>> [    2.868663] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 00: 00000340
>>> [    2.868664] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 01: 00001061
>>> [    2.868665] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 02: 00000147
>>> [    2.868667] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 03: 00202346
>>> [    2.868668] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 04: 00000400
>>> [    2.868669] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 05: 00000210
>>> [    2.868670] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 06: 00000211
>>> [    2.868671] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 07: 00000213
>>> [    2.876862] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: hwmon_device_register() is
>>> deprecated. Please convert the driver to use
>>> hwmon_device_register_with_info().
>>> [    2.899146] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: MM: using COPY for buffer
>>> copies
>>> [    2.947414] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: allocated 1366x768 fb:
>>> 0x70000, bo ffff98488129b800
>>> [    2.948762] fbcon: nouveaufb (fb0) is primary device
>>> [    2.948872] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fb0: nouveaufb frame buffer
>>> device
>>> [    2.996667] [drm] Initialized nouveau 1.3.1 20120801 for
>>> 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0
>>> [   49.592176] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for
>>> nouveau/nva8_fuc084 failed with error -2
>>> [   49.592197] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for
>>> nouveau/nva8_fuc084d failed with error -2
>>> [   49.592199] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: msvld: unable to load firmware
>>> data
>>> [   49.592206] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: msvld: init failed, -19
>>>
>>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218M
>>> [GeForce 315M] (rev a2)
>>> ---
>>>
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