Re: [drm] nouveau iMac crashes and burns

[Justin P. mattock]

On 12/15/09 15:08, Younes Manton wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Younes Manton<younes.m@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>    
> > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Justin Mattock<justinmattock@xxxxxxxxx>  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...)
>
>    
this is an intel iMac, with the 130 card

Justin P. Mattock
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