[Nouveau] Nvidia GK106GLM (Quadro K2100M) with Nouveau

[Martin Knoblauch]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 10:55 AM Martin Knoblauch <knobi at knobisoft.de> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 10:42 PM Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 5:30 PM Martin Knoblauch <knobi at knobisoft.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 7:45 PM Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi Martin,
> > > >
> > > > Depends what your expectations are. Nouveau is missing a number of
> > > > features of the blob, the most important of which is probably
> > > > stability. Whether you run into instability or not depends a lot on
> > > > the software that you use, so you'll just have to find out for
> > > > yourself if it works well for you or not. Personally, I have
> > > > multi-month uptimes with it. But others struggle to stay up for an
> > > > hour.
> > > >
> > > > With GK106, you should have manual reclocking, which should enable you
> > > > to achieve ~50-80% of blob performance, if that's a concern for you.
> > > > You won't get Vulkan nor H.264 hardware encoding.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > >
> > > >   -ilia
> > > >
> > > Hi Ilia,
> > >
> > >  most of my expectations would be met, if I were able to get a decent
> > > resolution from the GK106. As it is the card is not recognized, and it
> > > falls back to VESA with 1280x1024 which is pathetic. I have not much
> > > need or expectation on speed.
> >
> > That's not normal. Please post logs. Perhaps you have nouveau
> > blacklisted or something like that? Nouveau should definitely
> > recognize your card.
> >
> >   -ilia
> Hi Ilia,
>
>  thanks for providing the correct clue: "blacklisted". I had removed
> one blacklist command from /etc/modprobe.d, but the proprietary
> installer had left another at /usr/lib/modprobe.d. Kicked that out and
> now I have 1920x1080 and all my stuff is working fine :-)
>
> Btw card is recognized as "NVIDIA NVE6". Does that make sense?
>
> Cheers
> Martin

Just for completeness, here the kernel messages with the exception of
the last four line it looks fine to me:
L2XQJL32:/etc/X11 # dmesg | egrep -i "nouv|drm"
[    0.622266] ata1.00: supports DRM functions and may not be fully accessible
[    0.626716] ata1.00: supports DRM functions and may not be fully accessible
[    2.449847] ACPI: bus type drm_connector registered
[    2.503983] fb0: switching to nouveau from VESA VGA
[    2.504110] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console
[    2.504203] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: NVIDIA GK106 (0e63c0a1)
[    2.581231] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: version 80.06.7d.00.06
[    2.581548] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: mxm: BIOS version 3.0
[    2.582662] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fb: 2048 MiB GDDR5
[    2.649210] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: VRAM: 2048 MiB
[    2.649213] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: GART: 1048576 MiB
[    2.649215] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: TMDS table version 2.0
[    2.649216] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB version 4.0
[    2.649217] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 00: 01000f13 00010034
[    2.649218] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 03: 08015fd6 0f420020
[    2.649219] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 04: 08015f92 00020020
[    2.649220] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 05: 08014fc6 0f420010
[    2.649221] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 06: 08014f82 00020010
[    2.649222] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 10: 02027fa6 0f420010
[    2.649223] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 11: 02027f62 00020010
[    2.649224] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 13: 02049f00 00000000
[    2.649225] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 00: 00000040
[    2.649226] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 04: 01000446
[    2.649227] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 05: 02000546
[    2.649227] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 07: 00010746
[    2.649228] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 08: 00020847
[    2.649229] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 09: 00000900
[    2.650904] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: MM: using COPY for buffer copies
[    3.094131] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: allocated 1920x1080 fb:
0xa0000, bo 00000000f4ade0b2
[    3.094272] fbcon: nouveaudrmfb (fb0) is primary device
[    3.870574] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: [drm] fb0: nouveaudrmfb frame buffer device
[    3.889230] [drm] Initialized nouveau 1.3.1 20120801 for
0000:01:00.0 on minor 0
[    4.568900] systemd[1]: Starting Load Kernel Module drm...
[    4.584059] systemd[1]: modprobe at drm.service: Deactivated successfully.
[    4.584210] systemd[1]: Finished Load Kernel Module drm.
[    5.158821] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: bound 0000:01:00.0 (ops
nv50_audio_component_bind_ops [nouveau])
[    9.120392] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for
nouveau/nve6_fuc084 failed with error -2
[    9.120404] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for
nouveau/nve6_fuc084d failed with error -2
[    9.120405] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: msvld: unable to load firmware data
[    9.120409] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: msvld: init failed, -19

Martin