From: Alan Young <ayoung@teleport.com>
To: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] nouveau question -follow up
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 14:17:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55809282.1090707@teleport.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55804383.7070202@gt.rr.com>
Don Wilburn wrote:
> >I don't know how video cards are masked. I'm sure someone could tell
> me quicker than I can figure it out myself.
>
> I was looking in the wrong use.mask file. I found it.
> Nouveau was masked 4 years ago because it needs testing. So, I'll
> just unmask it and see what happens.
>
> One more question... for newer cards than mine, nouveau requires
> firmware blobs for some acceleration. Are those blobs independent of
> the computer, or do they require an intel/amd cpu? The Gentoo nvidia
> firmware package only shows amd64 and i386, I think.
>
> Adios, DW
>
>
The firmware should be independent of the architecture. Looking at the
ebuild, it looks like it downloads the x86 driver from nvidia, extracts
the files and then runs a python script to pull the firmware blob from
the driver. Eventually, it ends up in /lib/firmware/nouveau. Worst case
scenario you'll have to extract it on a x86 box (or maybe under qemu
running linux...) and copy the resulting file manually back to the Alpha.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-16 21:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-10 20:51 [gentoo-alpha] Xorg installation Don Wilburn
2013-05-10 21:18 ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-10 22:30 ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-10 22:55 ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-11 0:43 ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-11 2:03 ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-11 4:57 ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-11 20:11 ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-12 2:30 ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-12 18:07 ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-12 20:41 ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-15 1:56 ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-15 16:41 ` Matt Turner
2013-05-15 20:56 ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-16 2:31 ` [gentoo-alpha] Xorg installation- SOLVED! Don Wilburn
2013-05-16 2:46 ` [gentoo-alpha] suggestion for the Alpha handbook Don Wilburn
2013-05-16 18:46 ` [gentoo-alpha] Xorg installation- SOLVED! Matt Turner
2013-05-16 23:44 ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-23 19:12 ` [gentoo-alpha] emerge gentoo-sources fails Don Wilburn
2013-05-23 19:39 ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-23 21:30 ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-24 18:59 ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-24 20:16 ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-24 20:23 ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-24 20:56 ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-24 20:58 ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-24 21:12 ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-24 22:29 ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-27 4:12 ` [gentoo-alpha] emerge gentoo-sources fails FINISHED Don Wilburn
2013-05-27 4:25 ` [gentoo-alpha] one more thing Don Wilburn
2013-05-29 1:39 ` [gentoo-alpha] es1888 audio and PWS500au Don Wilburn
2013-05-29 4:47 ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-06-06 22:33 ` [gentoo-alpha] Alpha boot CD has no jfs tools Don Wilburn
2013-06-12 6:43 ` Matt Turner
2013-06-13 0:27 ` Don Wilburn
2013-06-13 7:17 ` Matt Turner
2013-06-14 3:27 ` [gentoo-alpha] Alpha boot CD has no jfs tools bug report Don Wilburn
2014-09-26 20:51 ` [gentoo-alpha] install cd won't boot Don Wilburn
2014-10-06 23:41 ` Don Wilburn
2014-10-07 14:32 ` Don Wilburn
2014-10-25 16:19 ` Raúl Porcel
2013-05-24 20:46 ` [gentoo-alpha] emerge gentoo-sources fails Don Wilburn
2013-07-11 2:41 ` [gentoo-alpha] emerge failure revisited Don Wilburn
2013-07-11 14:37 ` Andrew Gaylard
2013-07-11 18:42 ` Don Wilburn
2014-11-30 22:20 ` [gentoo-alpha] radeon questions Don Wilburn
2014-12-09 7:17 ` Matt Turner
2014-12-09 12:28 ` [gentoo-alpha] " Måns Rullgård
2014-12-09 18:56 ` Don Wilburn
2014-12-11 14:39 ` Alex Deucher
2014-12-10 0:54 ` [gentoo-alpha] " Don Wilburn
2014-12-13 22:10 ` Don Wilburn
2014-12-13 22:22 ` [gentoo-alpha] " Måns Rullgård
2014-12-13 22:25 ` Matt Turner
2014-12-14 20:50 ` Don Wilburn
2014-12-14 21:21 ` Måns Rullgård
2014-12-26 22:33 ` [gentoo-alpha] radeonfb question Don Wilburn
2014-12-27 21:09 ` [gentoo-alpha] radeonfb question solved Don Wilburn
2015-02-01 20:31 ` [gentoo-alpha] bug filed, probably happens to Alpha alone Don Wilburn
2015-02-04 0:14 ` Don Wilburn
2015-06-16 0:22 ` [gentoo-alpha] nouveau question Don Wilburn
2015-06-16 15:40 ` [gentoo-alpha] nouveau question -follow up Don Wilburn
2015-06-16 21:17 ` Alan Young [this message]
2013-07-21 4:10 ` [gentoo-alpha] emerge failure revisited Matt Turner
2013-07-23 0:26 ` Don Wilburn
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