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user9898

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Registered: 2020-06-26

Posts: 19  

Probably missing nouveau driver

Hello community,

My retro devuan 'chimaera' box is complaing about missing 'nouveau driver'

[   15.415139] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: firmware: failed to load nouveau/nv98_fuc084 (-2)
[   15.415147] firmware_class: See https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware for information about missing firmware
[   15.415150] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for nouveau/nv98_fuc084 failed with error -2
[   15.415161] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: firmware: failed to load nouveau/nv98_fuc084d (-2)
[   15.415162] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for nouveau/nv98_fuc084d failed with error -2
[   15.415165] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: msvld: unable to load firmware data
[   15.415167] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: msvld: init failed, -19

According to this link
https://ubuntu.pkgs.org/18.04/ubuntu-mu … l.deb.html

The missing package's name should be 'nouveau-firmware'

However when I do a apt search for such a package.
I get zero hits back.

The missing firmware files should be in
/lib/firmware/nouveau/

However when I check for a nouveau folder under /lib/firmware
There is no folder called nouveau #

Questions:

In which repo do I need to look for the missing file name ?
Also since I am debian sources as a refernce.
Are there any diferent package name differences, which could also a reason for the missing firmware ?

Here is copy of sources list file just in case, if we need to double check them

sudo cat /etc/apt/sources.list
## package repositories
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera main contrib non-free
#deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf main  
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-updates main contrib non-free
#deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-updates main  
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-security main contrib non-free  
#deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-security main  

#deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera main non-free contrib

#deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-backports main  
## source repositories
#deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf main  
#deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-updates main  
#deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-security main  
#deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-backports main  

fsmithred

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Registered: 2016-11-25

Posts: 2,486  

Re: Probably missing nouveau driver

I'm using nouveau in beowulf, and I have no /lib/firmware/nouveau or any nv98_fuc* files. And there are no error messages about missing firmware. The package you linked is over 10 years old. I don't think it exists now.

Make sure xserver-xorg-video-nouveau is installed. I have firmware-linux-free installed, but I don't see your missing files in it.

hevidevi

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Registered: 2021-09-17

Posts: 230  

Re: Probably missing nouveau driver

I found this..
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/nouveau/-/issues/51

that's totally fine. On those GPUs you have to extract the firmware from Nvidias drivers in order to get video acceleration. Sometimes there are firmware packages available for your distribution, sometimes you have to follow the nouveau wiki: https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/VideoAc … l#firmware

Last edited by hevidevi (2022-02-16 12:31:35)