On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:27 PM Jerry Geis <jerry.geis@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:20 PM Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:17 PM Jerry Geis <jerry.geis@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:06 PM Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:00 PM Jerry Geis <jerry.geis@gmail.com>
>> 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
>
> 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.
>
> So progress. but still no good.
>
> 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.

jerry