nouveau, a few errors in dmesg output

[Ilia Mirkin]

The msvld error implies that you don't have video decoding firmware
installed. This is fine if you don't want it, but if you want h264/vc1
decoding accel, have a look at
https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/VideoAcceleration.html . Basically you need
to extract the firmware from the official driver.

I think that the ce channel error might be fine? Does the rest of the
driver load OK? I have a vague recollection that GF114 has 2 types of CE
channels, but one of them is the "gzip acceleration" one which isn't used
in practice, and that's what this error is about. Could have been GF104
though ... does 3d acceleration work OK with the hardware driver? If it
does, you don't need to worry about it.

Cheers,

  -ilia

On Sat, May 31, 2025 at 1:02 AM G2 <g2subspstlc at gmail.com> wrote:

> hey,
>
> on an older asus gv75w running parrotOS with kernel Linux 6.12.12-amd64, a
> few errors, see below, regarding nouveau driver shows up in dmesg output.
> this is a fresh new OS install.
>
> are the errors the result of the nvida license issue or is it something
> else warranting more investigation to fix?
>
>
> #---[ sudo lshw -C display, (shortened output) ]--------------------
>   *-display
>        description: VGA compatible controller
>        product: GF114M [GeForce GTX 670M]
>        vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
>        capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list
> rom fb
>        configuration: depth=32 driver=nouveau latency=0
> resolution=1920,1080
>
> #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> #---[ dmesg errors ]-------------------------------------------------------
>
> May 25 08:51:40 parrot-33 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: msvld: init
> failed, -19
> May 25 08:51:40 parrot-33 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: msvld: unable to
> load firmware data
> May 25 08:51:40 parrot-33 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware
> load for nouveau/nvce_fuc084d failed with error -2
> May 25 08:51:40 parrot-33 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: firmware: failed
> to load nouveau/nvce_fuc084d (-2)
> May 25 08:51:40 parrot-33 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: firmware: failed
> to load nouveau/nvce_fuc084d (-2)
>
> May 25 08:51:34 parrot-33 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: drm: failed to
> create ce channel, -22
>
>
> #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> regards,
> wb
>
>
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