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From:   Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu>
Date:   Thu, 4 Jun 2020 12:13:35 -0400
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Subject: Re: [Nouveau] NVIDIA GP107 (137000a1) - acr: failed to load firmware
To:     Zeno Davatz <zdavatz@gmail.com>
Cc:     nouveau <nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org>,
        "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 12:04 PM Zeno Davatz <zdavatz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you, Ilia
>
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 5:25 PM Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu> 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

Not sure why you bother asking questions when you're just going to
dump nouveau anyways. This is the second time I've answered your
questions on this very topic, I think it'll be the last too.

Cheers,

  -ilia