<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:27 PM Jerry Geis <<a href="mailto:jerry.geis@gmail.com">jerry.geis@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:20 PM Ilia Mirkin <<a href="mailto:imirkin@alum.mit.edu" target="_blank">imirkin@alum.mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:17 PM Jerry Geis <<a href="mailto:jerry.geis@gmail.com" target="_blank">jerry.geis@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> > On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:06 PM Ilia Mirkin <<a href="mailto:imirkin@alum.mit.edu" target="_blank">imirkin@alum.mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br> >><br> >> On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:00 PM Jerry Geis <<a href="mailto:jerry.geis@gmail.com" target="_blank">jerry.geis@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> >> > lsmod | grep nouveau<br> >> ><br> >> > What dont I have ?<br> >><br> >> nouveau :)<br> >><br> >> Other than that, you got everything...<br> >><br> >> Check dmesg for errors.<br> >><br> >> Cheers,<br> >><br> >> -ilia<br> ><br> ><br> > I see this:<br> > Oct 1 15:11:21 mediaport57 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1546]: (==) Matched nouveau as autoconfigured driver 0<br> <br> This is not dmesg. This is some log file. Please look in dmesg.<br> <br> > Oct 1 15:11:23 mediaport57 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1546]: (**) VESA(0): Using "Shadow Framebuffer"<br> <br> X is using the VESA driver because nouveau (nor any other DRM driver) is loaded.<br> <br> ><br> > So it seems like its loading .... but perhaps its not happy ????<br> ><br> > What do I do ?<br> <br> Check dmesg for why nouveau didn't load.<br> <br> -ilia<br></blockquote><div><br></div> grep -i nouveau /var/log/dmesg<br>[ 19.934733] kernel: fb0: switching to nouveaufb from VESA VGA<br>[ 20.013197] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console<br>[ 20.013415] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: NVIDIA GT218 (0a8200b1)<br>[ 20.159472] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: bios: version 70.18.45.00.00<br>[ 20.162603] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: fb: 512 MiB DDR3<br>[ 21.552858] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: VRAM: 512 MiB<br>[ 21.552873] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: GART: 1048576 MiB<br>[ 21.552888] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: TMDS table version 2.0<br>[ 21.552900] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: DCB version 4.0<br>[ 21.552911] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 00: 01000302 00000030<br>[ 21.552924] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 01: 02000300 00000000<br>[ 21.552937] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 02: 02011362 00020010<br>[ 21.552950] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 00: 00001030<br>[ 21.552961] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 01: 00002161<br>[ 21.568834] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: MM: using COPY for buffer copies<br>[ 21.645206] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: allocated 1920x1080 fb: 0x70000, bo (____ptrval____)<br>[ 21.648681] kernel: fbcon: nouveaudrmfb (fb0) is primary device<br>[ 21.837701] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: [drm] fb0: nouveaudrmfb frame buffer device<br>[ 21.873290] kernel: [drm] Initialized nouveau 1.3.1 20120801 for 0000:03:00.0 on minor 0<br><div><br></div><div>lsmod | grep nouveau<br>nouveau 1986560 30<br>mxm_wmi 16384 1 nouveau<br>i2c_algo_bit 16384 1 nouveau<br>drm_ttm_helper 16384 1 nouveau<br>ttm 73728 2 drm_ttm_helper,nouveau<br>drm_kms_helper 237568 1 nouveau<br>drm 548864 25 drm_kms_helper,drm_ttm_helper,ttm,nouveau<br>video 53248 1 nouveau<br>wmi 32768 2 mxm_wmi,nouveau<br></div><div><br></div><div>I took off ALL extra kernel command paramters - nothing specific to nouveau - and I got better results. however - video is still dropping frames.</div><div><br></div><div>So progress. but still no good.</div><div><br></div><div>Jerry </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I see this error:</div><div>nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for nouveau/nva8_fuc084 failed</div><div><br></div><div>I did apt-file search nva8_fuc084 </div><div>and it did not return anything.</div><div><br></div><div>jerry </div></div></div>