Re: Question about nouveau, and also about bell/alert

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On Sat, Dec 04, 2021 at 11:44:03PM -0800, Andras Farkas wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Is it normal for nouveau not to work with an Nvidia GTX 970?  I
> unfortunately have an Nvidia video card.
> I have hardware reports, in case more details are needed:
> https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=14907c62f1
> https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=8f18868bb4
> https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=7a7abd7af2

I would expect this to work with new drm code that is coming real soon
(once we resolve a few issues with ARM DRM drivers).

If you try it now you will need to find firmware yourself, and slightly
patch the code.

git clone https://github.com/riastradh/netbsd-src -b re4drm56
Delete these two lines:
https://github.com/riastradh/netbsd-src/blob/re4drm56/sys/external/bsd/drm2/nouveau/nouveau_pci.c#L131-L132


And install your own firmware from linux-firmware:

git clone https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git
mv /libdata/firmware/nouveau/nvidia /libdata/firmware/nouveau/nvidia.old
cp -pR linux-firmware/nvidia /libdata/firmware/nouveau/

(Note this runs a -current kernel, but you can update just the kernel
and run the same userland)