Messages in this thread | | | From | Younes Manton <> | Date | Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:02:24 -0500 | Subject | Re: [drm] nouveau iMac crashes and burns |
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On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Justin Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com> wrote: > I had figured this would happen, > but was curious to see if this > new bad boy would work. > (probably why fedora 12 doesnt boot as well). > > basically the system freezes during boot once > drn nouveau is loaded. here's dmesg captured > with firescope:(a bit long)
<..snip..> > <3>[ 6.891531] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: No ctxprog for NV94 <..snip..>
> > machine is an iMac with the gt130 card > I loaded mesa,dri, but didn't find any > firmware(if any) for /lib/firmware
You need the firmware, it's not carried in the upstream tree.[1] There's also a PPC-specific patch currently in the Nouveau tree and on various lists that you need to apply.[2]
[1] http://people.freedesktop.org/~pq/ [2] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/linux-2.6/commit/?id=a51b847bebf85e8539db6afe1627a3a17a05dfcc
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