Help Nouveau with reverse engineering of NVidia drivers!

Mikos · 2007-02-06 22:59:14

Renouveau is automatic clean room reverse engineering tool made by Nouveau developers. If you want to help develop opensource 3D NVidia drivers, you can use this tool and send dumps to Nouveau developers. As this is clean room reverse engineering, it is completely legal all over the world (also note that in most European countries, even other forms of reverse engineering are legal for the purposes of interoperability). Progress on development of Nouveau drivers is going really well in last months (for example glxgears are already running on some cards), help developers make it even better!

I have created renouveau PKGBUILD and uploaded it to AUR, you can find it HERE. It is simple:

1.) Build and install renouveau from AUR
2.) Make some directory for it, e.g.: mkdir ~/renouveau
3.) Go to this directory: cd ~/renouveau
4.) Run 'renouveau' command
5.) Wait for renouveau OpenGL tests to be finished. Make sure that screensaver is disabled while running tests. Also don't cover test window with mouse cursor (or other windows) and don't move with test window
6.) Create tar.bz2 archive from all output files saved by renouveau in ~/renouveau directory
7.) Send archive to this address: renouveau.dumps@gmail.com

Last edited by Mikos (2007-02-07 03:25:56)

wain · 2007-02-06 23:18:03

done

Stalwart · 2007-02-06 23:28:14

Will do. I have GeForceGo 7200 which is now, afaik, supported only by proprietary driver

Mikos · 2007-02-07 00:09:03

If there will be some forum admin - please can you make this thread sticky? It is IMHO really important...

Last edited by Mikos (2007-02-07 00:10:29)

funkyou · 2007-02-07 13:32:01

Thanks for posting that, as i am willing to help on open driver development where i can...

skymt · 2007-02-07 16:50:13

Should I run this even though the official drivers have a major bug with my hardware? Might it generate bad data?

baze · 2007-02-07 16:55:41

i'd say definately yes. and tell about that bug in the email you send.

dienadel · 2007-02-07 19:45:49

I obtain an error message:

> renouveau
detect_devices: Creating probe window failed.
Device detection failed.

Both as normal user, and as root

:-(

wuischke · 2007-02-08 15:23:05

I only have older Nvidia Hardware (Geforce 2 MX Classic and Geforce 4 Ti 4200), would it be useful to do the test or is support for these old cards already dropped?

baze · 2007-02-08 16:00:16

wuischke wrote:

I only have older Nvidia Hardware (Geforce 2 MX Classic and Geforce 4 Ti 4200), would it be useful to do the test or is support for these old cards already dropped?

they target cards between nv05 and g80, so your cards are targeted too.

wuischke · 2007-02-09 16:14:43

Dumps sent. Riva TNT (1) is NV4, isn't it? And NV5 is TNT2? [I got an Elsa Erazor II lying around, unfortunately nothing else by Nvidia.]

baze · 2007-02-09 17:42:17

that's right. riva tnt is nv4 and tnt2 is nv5.
but you can try to run them nevertheless, i'd say. you should at least run the tnt2.

mutlu_inek · 2007-02-09 17:55:36

+1 request for making this sticky

hightower · 2007-02-09 19:24:36

Perhaps this is a stupid question: Has the monitor to be on all the time. What is with standby mode and others?

Does it make sense to run the test multiple times on the same machine? Are there recommended X-Server extensions, settings etc. to gain the most useful information?

hightower

Last edited by hightower (2007-02-09 19:33:29)

caust1c · 2007-02-09 19:28:55

i get a segmentationfault after some tests

manmower · 2007-02-09 20:03:54

Done.

wuischke · 2007-02-09 21:20:22

baze wrote:

that's right. riva tnt is nv4 and tnt2 is nv5.
but you can try to run them nevertheless, i'd say. you should at least run the tnt2.

Last edited by wuischke (2007-02-09 22:20:15)

baze · 2007-02-09 21:52:13

wuischke wrote:

baze wrote:
that's right. riva tnt is nv4 and tnt2 is nv5.
but you can try to run them nevertheless, i'd say. you should at least run the tnt2.
No, the Erazor II is TNT (1) powered. It's got a (c) 1998 on his backside...Just wanted to help and searched everything printing Nvidia on it.

ah yeah, right. the erazor III was tnt2.
i even had the erazor II myself, but it's been a while

Last edited by baze (2007-02-09 21:53:40)

xerverius · 2007-02-10 12:52:18

Did the test for my geforce go 7400. Btw mesa is a dependency for the package.

Suschi · 2007-02-10 15:28:22

if you want to test the nouveau here is a hint for you. it simply does not work xorg-server package! you have to patch xorg-server source, because the pkgbuild uses the libdrm included in xorg-server sources.

if someone is interested in pkgbuilds. let me know

Last edited by Suschi (2007-02-10 15:30:20)

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