Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932879AbZLOXIf (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:08:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932825AbZLOXIa (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:08:30 -0500 Received: from mail-fx0-f221.google.com ([209.85.220.221]:48526 "EHLO mail-fx0-f221.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761693AbZLOXI1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:08:27 -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=TFvpZanf9svYyGgTpeQvnM6DVaA+lz36imIulKTq3zHB6MpH9rSdYOzzz2ju3YLiHm 75Sw2TTfGvrekzROly6BlfH0WnPtx5e1ozPsPeqYTZBwLXBNvru34Ap2Dp2Y99464aos RvMcEuu0fum2/fxtNDUkBSGfUnmp8I86Gp/FQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <586c2acd0912151502o303f6b14g7277289ff5dc69b3@mail.gmail.com> References: <586c2acd0912151502o303f6b14g7277289ff5dc69b3@mail.gmail.com> From: Younes Manton Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:08:06 -0500 Message-ID: <586c2acd0912151508q5361d6a5o12016648935b4eec@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: 1357 Lines: 35 On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Younes Manton wrote: > 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 > (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...) -- 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/