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cellsheet

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Registered: 2014-03-26

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Unknown chipset NV134

I'm attempting to use nouveau on my gtx 1080 for to run some wayland, but I'm getting the following in Xorg.0.log:

[ 229.912] (EE) Unknown chipset: NV134

More can be found on http://i.imgur.com/6yOGoTZ.jpg because I didn't get to upload the logs before they were overwritten.

I understand that nouveau doesn't have hw acceleration support as of yet, which is okay for now as I'm just trying to get some compositor's running.

However, according to https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page= … eau-Pascal there has been some initial work which was posted back in July, so I'm understanding this should have made its way to the nouveau-git tree now or am I mistaking this for the linux kernel 4.10 changes that will be made?

Last edited by cellsheet (2016-11-01 16:51:29)

mich41

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Registered: 2012-06-22

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Re: Unknown chipset NV134

This message comes from the userspace part of the driver (mesa or xf86-video-nouveau), not the kernel.

cellsheet

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Re: Unknown chipset NV134

This message comes from the userspace part of the driver (mesa or xf86-video-nouveau), not the kernel.

Right, but from my understanding this should enable KMS from the work Ben skeggs put into nouveau, albeit no hw acceleration. I'm not understanding why it's erroring if that's the case.

mich41

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Re: Unknown chipset NV134

Your userspace nouveau stack doesn't support this chip. You need to get some -git versions (assuming such support exists anywhere at all) or use xf86-video-modesetting instead.

To be honest, I'm surprised that Xorg didn't fall back on modesetting when nouveau failed to load.

Maybe it tried but this failed too so search the log for any modesetting driver errors.

Last edited by mich41 (2016-11-02 16:37:24)

cellsheet

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Re: Unknown chipset NV134

Your userspace nouveau stack doesn't support this chip. You need to get some -git versions (assuming such support exists anywhere at all) or use xf86-video-modesetting instead.

To be honest, I'm surprised that Xorg didn't fall back on modesetting when nouveau failed to load.

Maybe it tried but this failed too so search the log for any modesetting driver errors.

That's actually what happens in a mint iso for example I found out.
I was curious as to what would happen if I booted one of those up to see how it dealt with nouveau (as installed by default on major distro's).
I'm not sure how to make xorg fall back per-say on arch however the way other distro's do.

seth

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Re: Unknown chipset NV134

full Xorg log?

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Lone_Wolf

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Re: Unknown chipset NV134

I'm not sure how to make xorg fall back per-say on arch however the way other distro's do.

If you're using X autodetection (no *.conf files in /etc/X11 and /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d) , removing xf86-video-nouveau should be enough to have X fallback to modesetting driver.

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cellsheet

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Re: Unknown chipset NV134

Thanks, I will give this one a try. (: