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Re: Nouveau driver on nvidia 8500GT (amd64)



On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 15:38:34 +0000
Taylor R Campbell <campbell+netbsd-tech-x11%mumble.net@localhost> wrote:

>    Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 06:46:08 +1100
>    from: matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>
> 
>    thanks.  this works for me now.  except the wsdisplay is broken:
> 
>    drm kern info: nouveau  [  PGRAPH][nouveau0] using external firmware
>    firmware_open(nouveau/nv117_fuc409c) called too early.
>    firmware_open(nouveau/fuc409c) called too early.
> 
>    which fortunately doesn't panic for my serial console.  next
>    step is to use config_mountroot() here like radeon, and the
>    non PCI nouveau.
> 
> Cool!  This should be easy to adapt from radeon.  Getting it to attach
> vga instead if there's no firmware may be a little trickier...  I'm
> still sitting on a kludgey patch to try to do this (vga0 at radeon0 at
> pci0) but lack the time to make it work.

Very cool that you guys are working on this. :)

In case it helps, attached is a screenshot of how the current code
crashes on my GeForce 8400 GS.

kind regards
dieter

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