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jedihawk

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Registered: 2015-11-20

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[WORKAROUND] nouveau: Unknown chipset: NV124

Greetings,

Please pardon me if this is not the correct forum for Nouveau questions.  I couldn't find one which seemed more appropriate.

I'm trying to use Nouveau but X won't start up.  Some lines from my Xorg.0.log file:

X.Org X Server 1.17.4
Release Date: 2015-10-28
[ 31279.790] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
[ 31279.791] Build Operating System: Linux 4.2.5-1-ARCH x86_64 
[ 31279.791] Current Operating System: Linux blackbeast 4.2.5-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Oct 27 08:13:28 CET 2015 x86_64
[ 31279.791] Kernel command line: initrd=\initramfs-linux.img root=/dev/sdc3 rw
[ 31279.792] Build Date: 01 November 2015  10:36:50AM
[ 31279.792]  
[ 31279.793] Current version of pixman: 0.32.8

[ 31279.800] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
[ 31279.800] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
[ 31279.800] (II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 31279.800]    compiled for 1.17.4, module version = 1.0.0
[ 31279.800]    ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 9.0
[ 31279.800] (==) AIGLX enabled
[ 31279.800] (II) LoadModule: "nouveau"
[ 31279.800] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so
[ 31279.800] (II) Module nouveau: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 31279.800]    compiled for 1.17.0, module version = 1.0.11
[ 31279.800]    Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[ 31279.800]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 19.0
[ 31279.800] (II) NOUVEAU driver 
[ 31279.800] (II) NOUVEAU driver for NVIDIA chipset families :
[ 31279.800]    RIVA TNT        (NV04)
[ 31279.800]    RIVA TNT2       (NV05)
[ 31279.800]    GeForce 256     (NV10)
[ 31279.800]    GeForce 2       (NV11, NV15)
[ 31279.800]    GeForce 4MX     (NV17, NV18)
[ 31279.800]    GeForce 3       (NV20)
[ 31279.800]    GeForce 4Ti     (NV25, NV28)
[ 31279.800]    GeForce FX      (NV3x)
[ 31279.800]    GeForce 6       (NV4x)
[ 31279.800]    GeForce 7       (G7x)
[ 31279.800]    GeForce 8       (G8x)
[ 31279.800]    GeForce GTX 200 (NVA0)
[ 31279.800]    GeForce GTX 400 (NVC0)
[ 31279.801] (++) using VT number 2
[ 31279.801] (--) controlling tty is VT number 2, auto-enabling KeepTty
[ 31279.801] (II) [drm] nouveau interface version: 1.2.2
[ 31279.801] (EE) Unknown chipset: NV124
[ 31279.801] (II) [drm] nouveau interface version: 1.2.2
[ 31279.801] (EE) Unknown chipset: NV124
[ 31279.801] (EE) [drm] Failed to open DRM device for pci:0000:01:00.0: -13
[ 31279.801] (EE) No devices detected.
[ 31279.801] (EE) 
Fatal server error:
[ 31279.801] (EE) no screens found(EE) 
[ 31279.801] (EE) 
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 
         at [url]http://wiki.x.org[/url]
 for help. 

The line for my video card from `lspci`:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] (rev a1)

Google doesn't know what to do with "Unknown chipset: NV124".  Shall I just abandon Nouveau and go with Nvidia's drivers?

2015-11-20 EDIT: added [ code ] tags.

Last edited by jedihawk (2015-11-25 22:32:27)

V1del

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Re: [WORKAROUND] nouveau: Unknown chipset: NV124

Yes use nvidia, nouveau doesn't support Maxwell chips yet (because Nvidia hasn't provided any firmware binaries yet), for next time please use [ code ] tags to post logfiles/command output, makes everything more readable.

Last edited by V1del (2015-11-20 18:19:42)

jedihawk

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Registered: 2015-11-20

Posts: 17

Re: [WORKAROUND] nouveau: Unknown chipset: NV124

Okay thanks.  I'll switch to Nvidia's drivers.

WorMzy

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Re: [WORKAROUND] nouveau: Unknown chipset: NV124

Moving to Kernel & Hardware.

Please remember to mark your thread as solved by editing your first post and amending the topic title.

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jedihawk

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Re: [WORKAROUND] nouveau: Unknown chipset: NV124

Moving to Kernel & Hardware.

Please remember to mark your thread as solved by editing your first post and amending the topic title.

Thanks for the tip, WorMzy.  Is it "solved" if I abandon the project for another?

WorMzy

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Re: [WORKAROUND] nouveau: Unknown chipset: NV124

Depends.

I interpret the problem to be that nouveau doesn't support Maxwell chips, and the solution is to use the nvidia driver instead (at least until Maxwell support is added to nouveau).

If you don't want to use the nvidia driver, then the problem is not solved. It's up to you to decide whether your topic is solved or not.

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jedihawk

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Registered: 2015-11-20

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Re: [WORKAROUND] nouveau: Unknown chipset: NV124

Got it working with the distribution Nvidia (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA) package.

# pacman -S nvidia nvidia-libgl.

After that, I got my dual-head setup working by running:

# nvida-settings

and messing around in there until it worked.  After the second monitor came on for Xorg, I configured KDE's settings to extend the desktop onto the second monitor and all was well.