Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932396AbZLOXQh (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:16:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761952AbZLOXQI (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:16:08 -0500 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.159]:28724 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933625AbZLOXCp (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:02:45 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=b8P6e3sveDSaWU8c50NN/EojJLtMzYz4jYgBQtD8whdzfc+UtNdRZRXJ625PqwGxzD e5KiQ8ie+RUoShnck9p6twNPARG5yhxCohoYDVrd/5N6AY1cg6dH9lO0lLAELTpHOHF6 6HMysTqORt30yPGwI8GaDg9fOO++l3g1x2AQc= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: Younes Manton Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:02:24 -0500 Message-ID: <586c2acd0912151502o303f6b14g7277289ff5dc69b3@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [drm] nouveau iMac crashes and burns To: Justin Mattock Cc: xorg@freedesktop.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1130 Lines: 30 On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Justin Mattock 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/