Re: [Nouveau] NVIDIA GP107 (137000a1) - acr: failed to load firmware

[Zeno Davatz]

Thank you, Ilia

On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 5:25 PM Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There's a lot more firmware files than that ... everything in the
> gp107 directory. Also this would only be necessary if nouveau is built
> into the kernel. The files just have to be available whenever nouveau
> is loaded -- if it's built in, that means the firmware has to be baked
> into the kernel too. If it's loaded from initrd, that means the
> firmware has to be in initrd. If it's loaded after boot, then the
> firmware has to be available after boot.

For the time being I got it working by removing all nouveau selections
in "make menuconfig" and by emerging "x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers"
Version 440.82.

Back on the latest Linux Kernel. Feels great ;).

Linux zenogentoo 5.7.0 #84 SMP Thu Jun 4 17:47:15 CEST 2020 x86_64
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 960 @ 3.20GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Best
Zeno