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done_with_fish

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Registered: 2014-12-15

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Fresh installation greeted with "unknown chips" error

I just finished using the beginner's guide to install arch on my Sager NP8651 laptop. After rebooting I am greeted with

  Arch Linux 3.18.2-2-ARCH (tty1)

  host login: [    2.226106] nouveau E[  DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] unknown chips
  et, 0x124180a1
  [    2.226112] nouveau E[    DRM] failed to create 0x00000080, -22

Hitting return twice allows me to login as root.

I'm guessing there is something wrong with my video card (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M). Issuing

  lspci -k | grep -A 2 -i "VGA"

returns

  00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)
               Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer Device 6555
               Kernel driver in use: i915

My NVIDIA card isn't listed.

Should I try reinstalling or is there potentially a way to fix this?

Last edited by done_with_fish (2015-01-23 23:06:26)

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: Fresh installation greeted with "unknown chips" error

So you have integrated intel graphics, and a NVIDIA card? I think you need to follow the Bumblebee or PRIME pages on the wiki.  Or just disable one or the other card from BIOS.

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done_with_fish

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Registered: 2014-12-15

Posts: 7

Re: Fresh installation greeted with "unknown chips" error

Thanks for replying so quickly. I'd like to disable one of the cards from BIOS but I don't see the option to do so. I've googled around quite a bit and can't seem to figure it out.

Knute

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From: Minot, ND

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 604

Re: Fresh installation greeted with "unknown chips" error

In looking over the system specs, it appears that the only video driver is the nvidia card.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/sager-c … eview.html

It also appears that there are a few packages that need to be installed in order to have everything up and running with nouveau.
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/htt … .org/wiki/

It would appear that you need to install xf86-video-nouveau.

And I'm going to stop there as I don't use the nouveau drivers, and it looks like its covered in the prime page anyway.   Hopefully I posted something helpful to you. 

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alphaniner

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From: Ancapistan

Registered: 2010-07-12

Posts: 2,810

Re: Fresh installation greeted with "unknown chips" error

@done_with_fish: Trilby is probably right, but did you google "nouveau E[  DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] unknown chipset"? For me the first hit was an Ubuntu bug report to which an apparent nouveau developer replied: "Congratulations, you have a chip that wasn't known by the nouveau developers yet. :-)".

@Knute: Sorry to shut you down again, but according to your link the CPU has integrated graphics. Also, any extra packages are only needed for Xorg.

Last edited by alphaniner (2015-01-24 06:50:49)

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