Re: nouveau problem (amd64/8.99.42)

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>]

Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
>On a machine with a Geforce GTX 960 (which I was told is supported), X
>doesn't start (startx doesn't succeed, see attached log).
>
>The nouveau lines in dmesg don't look very good... (see attached dmesg).

>nouveau0: info: gr: using external firmware
>firmware_open(nouveau/nvidia/gm206/fecs_inst.bin) called too early.
>nouveau0: autoconfiguration error: error: gr: failed to load fecs_inst

We don't provide the firmware files in /libdata for this card.

They are in the same repository that we copy the radeon firmware from
so it isn't much work to add them.