On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:40 PM Ilia Mirkin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:36 PM Jerry Geis wrote: > > > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:27 PM Jerry Geis wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >> On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:20 PM Ilia Mirkin > wrote: > >>> > >>> On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:17 PM Jerry Geis > wrote: > >>> > On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:06 PM Ilia Mirkin > wrote: > >>> >> > >>> >> On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:00 PM Jerry Geis > wrote: > >>> >> > lsmod | grep nouveau > >>> >> > > >>> >> > What dont I have ? > >>> >> > >>> >> nouveau :) > >>> >> > >>> >> Other than that, you got everything... > >>> >> > >>> >> Check dmesg for errors. > >>> >> > >>> >> Cheers, > >>> >> > >>> >> -ilia > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > I see this: > >>> > Oct 1 15:11:21 mediaport57 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1546]: (==) > Matched nouveau as autoconfigured driver 0 > >>> > >>> This is not dmesg. This is some log file. Please look in dmesg. > >>> > >>> > Oct 1 15:11:23 mediaport57 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1546]: (**) > VESA(0): Using "Shadow Framebuffer" > >>> > >>> X is using the VESA driver because nouveau (nor any other DRM driver) > is loaded. > >>> > >>> > > >>> > So it seems like its loading .... but perhaps its not happy ???? > >>> > > >>> > What do I do ? > >>> > >>> Check dmesg for why nouveau didn't load. > >>> > >>> -ilia > >> > >> > >> grep -i nouveau /var/log/dmesg > >> [ 19.934733] kernel: fb0: switching to nouveaufb from VESA VGA > >> [ 20.013197] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga > console > >> [ 20.013415] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: NVIDIA GT218 (0a8200b1) > >> [ 20.159472] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: bios: version > 70.18.45.00.00 > >> [ 20.162603] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: fb: 512 MiB DDR3 > >> [ 21.552858] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: VRAM: 512 MiB > >> [ 21.552873] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: GART: 1048576 MiB > >> [ 21.552888] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: TMDS table version 2.0 > >> [ 21.552900] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: DCB version 4.0 > >> [ 21.552911] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 00: 01000302 > 00000030 > >> [ 21.552924] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 01: 02000300 > 00000000 > >> [ 21.552937] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 02: 02011362 > 00020010 > >> [ 21.552950] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 00: 00001030 > >> [ 21.552961] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 01: 00002161 > >> [ 21.568834] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: MM: using COPY for > buffer copies > >> [ 21.645206] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: DRM: allocated 1920x1080 > fb: 0x70000, bo (____ptrval____) > >> [ 21.648681] kernel: fbcon: nouveaudrmfb (fb0) is primary device > >> [ 21.837701] kernel: nouveau 0000:03:00.0: [drm] fb0: nouveaudrmfb > frame buffer device > >> [ 21.873290] kernel: [drm] Initialized nouveau 1.3.1 20120801 for > 0000:03:00.0 on minor 0 > > I was looking for you to just run "dmesg", BTW, not read a log file. > > >> > >> lsmod | grep nouveau > >> nouveau 1986560 30 > >> mxm_wmi 16384 1 nouveau > >> i2c_algo_bit 16384 1 nouveau > >> drm_ttm_helper 16384 1 nouveau > >> ttm 73728 2 drm_ttm_helper,nouveau > >> drm_kms_helper 237568 1 nouveau > >> drm 548864 25 > drm_kms_helper,drm_ttm_helper,ttm,nouveau > >> video 53248 1 nouveau > >> wmi 32768 2 mxm_wmi,nouveau > >> > >> I took off ALL extra kernel command paramters - nothing specific to > nouveau - and I got better results. however - video is still dropping > frames. > > Perhaps you had a "nomodeset" in there? That would prevent nouveau > from doing anything useful, although I think it'd still load in that > case. > > >> > >> So progress. but still no good. > > Check xorg log to make sure you see NOUVEAU lines, not modeset lines. > If you see modeset lines, make sure you force the nouveau DDX driver > to load. (Some distros think it's funny to prevent it from loading by > default...) > > >> > >> Jerry > > > > > > I see this error: > > nouveau 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for nouveau/nva8_fuc084 failed > > > > I did apt-file search nva8_fuc084 > > and it did not return anything. > > This is for video decoding acceleration (vdpau / va-api). You can set > this up by following the instructions at > https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/VideoAcceleration.html . Note that > it's hardly perfect. > > Cheers, > > -ilia > These were the kernel command line items I removed. acpi=off pci=nomsi The machine seems happier - now - althought I no longer have sound for some reason - but after installing the firmware - CPU % is way down. Thanks Jerry