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JediKnight

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Registered: 2012-06-07

Posts: 15

nouveau doesn't start with some error messages

I have Samsung NP300V5A laptop, with GeForce GT520MX installed. After nouveau installation I saw some errors I've never seen before, and I didn't find anything useful on the web on that matter. Any suggestions appreciated.

dmesg|grep nouveau:

[   11.002437] nouveau  [  DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] BOOT0  : 0x0d9110a1
[   11.002439] nouveau  [  DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] Chipset: GF119 (NVD9)
[   11.002440] nouveau  [  DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] Family : NVD0
[   11.003658] nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] checking PRAMIN for image...
[   11.051772] nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] ... signature not found
[   11.051774] nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] checking PROM for image...
[   11.051839] nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] ... signature not found
[   11.051840] nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] checking ACPI for image...
[   11.051842] nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] ... signature not found
[   11.051843] nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] checking PCIROM for image...
[   11.051844] nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] ... signature not found
[   11.051845] nouveau E[   VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] unable to locate usable image
[   11.065308] nouveau E[  DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] failed to create 0x10000001, -22
[   11.078877] nouveau E[     DRM] failed to create 0x80000080, -22
[   11.092800] nouveau: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -22

lspci|grep NVIDIA:
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF119 [GeForce GT 520MX] (rev a1)

/var/log/Xorg.8.log:
http://anonymousdelivers.us/44377

lsmod|grep nouveau:
nouveau               916214  0
mxm_wmi                 1467  1 nouveau
wmi                     8379  2 mxm_wmi,nouveau
ttm                    64499  1 nouveau
drm_kms_helper         35090  2 i915,nouveau
video                  11170  3 i915,samsung_laptop,nouveau
drm                   223731  5 ttm,i915,drm_kms_helper,nouveau
i2c_algo_bit            5391  2 i915,nouveau
i2c_core               22774  7 drm,i915,i2c_i801,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit,nouveau,videodev
button                  4701  2 i915,nouveau

Last edited by JediKnight (2013-04-08 23:33:18)

cfr

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From: Cymru

Registered: 2011-11-27

Posts: 7,132

Re: nouveau doesn't start with some error messages

You have drivers for both intel and nouveau loaded. That is not going to work nicely. Do you have a laptop with both? If so, you need to work around the lack of support for optimus. Either you can not use one or the other or you can try using something like bumblebee.

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JediKnight

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Registered: 2012-06-07

Posts: 15

Re: nouveau doesn't start with some error messages

Everything i wrote before - the reason optirun cannot start - look at Xorg.8.log, it's from bumblebee X server. Messages about wrong signatures are coming during pc start - long before bumblebee daemon starts.

Cthulhu82

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From: Nantes, France

Registered: 2013-04-01

Posts: 152

Re: nouveau doesn't start with some error messages

Try to remove nouveau and use instead the nvidia driver, see if it solves your problem.
If you use nouveau because you absolutely want an free driver, then I can't help you, I never used it myself .

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