Messages in this thread | | | From | Younes Manton <> | Date | Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:08:06 -0500 | Subject | Re: [drm] nouveau iMac crashes and burns |
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On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Younes Manton <younes.m@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
(You only need to apply [2] if yours is a PPC Mac in case it wasn't obvious, I just assumed PPC for some reason...)
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