Hello everyone;
I’m using a laptop with a GTX 760M graphics card; now running Fedora 37; up until recently I was using the proprietary drivers, but for some reason the kernel mods seemed to stop either building or working, either way, since it’s a relatively old card it’s no longer on the latest drivers branch; so I thought of trying the nouveau way; so while everything is working so far, I don’t believe I get any 3D acceleration; so there are some bits that I would like to get clarified; according to the nouveau site VideoAcceleration I should be able to get acceleration as long as I install the “EXTFW” (external firmware), so my questions are:
-
Is, in Fedora, the external firmware mentioned in the noveau site the
nvidia-gpu-firmware
? I got that one installed. -
When I run
xrandr --listproviders
both providers show the namemodesetting
, is that meant to be correct?
Output:
Providers: number : 2
Provider 0: id: 0x45 cap: 0xf, Source Output, Sink Output, Source Offload, Sink Offload crtcs: 3 outputs: 3 associated providers: 1 name:modesetting
Provider 1: id: 0xd9 cap: 0x5, Source Output, Source Offload crtcs: 0 outputs: 0 associated providers: 1 name:modesetting
- On my grub args I have
initcall_blacklist=simpledrm_platform_driver_init
remaining, I removed most of the ones mentioned in Howto/NVIDIA - RPM Fusion ; should that also be removed?
cat -p /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,msdos1)/vmlinuz-6.1.8-200.fc37.x86_64 root=UUID=cee72693-77ec-45cc-96bc-a17aa98da5e2 ro rootflags=subvol=root rhgb quiet initcall_blacklist=simpledrm_platform_driver_init
- Running
DRI_PRIME=1 glxgears
should give a way higher number than withDRI_PRIME=0 glxgears
? As it is now, I get the “same”:
DRI_PRIME=1 glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
309 frames in 5.0 seconds = 61.703 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.997 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.005 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.003 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.001 FPS
DRI_PRIME=0 glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
307 frames in 5.0 seconds = 61.384 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.999 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.999 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.005 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.005 FPS
This is what throws me off, and the reason of me writing this post heh.
Some more (useful?) outputs:
lsmod |grep nouveau
nouveau 2715648 3
drm_ttm_helper 16384 1 nouveau
mxm_wmi 16384 1 nouveau
drm_display_helper 208896 2 i915,nouveau
ttm 94208 3 drm_ttm_helper,i915,nouveau
video 65536 3 msi_wmi,i915,nouveau
wmi 45056 4 video,msi_wmi,mxm_wmi,nouveau
dmesg | grep -iE 'nvidia|nouveau'
[ 2.370544] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: NVIDIA GK106 (0e6230a1)
[ 2.446891] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: version 80.06.6a.00.01
[ 2.551350] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fb: 2048 MiB GDDR5
[ 2.556219] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bus: MMIO write of ffffffff FAULT at 10ecc0 [ PRIVRING ]
[ 2.618877] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: VRAM: 2048 MiB
[ 2.618879] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: GART: 1048576 MiB
[ 2.618881] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: Pointer to TMDS table not found
[ 2.618883] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB version 4.0
[ 2.620576] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: MM: using COPY for buffer copies
[ 2.620777] [drm] Initialized nouveau 1.3.1 20120801 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0
[ 137.064038] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Enabling HDA controller
[ 137.160101] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bus: MMIO write of ffffffff FAULT at 10ecc0 [ PRIVRING ]
[ 257.388598] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Enabling HDA controller
[ 257.505092] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bus: MMIO write of ffffffff FAULT at 10ecc0 [ PRIVRING ]
[ 320.869801] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Enabling HDA controller
[ 320.986126] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bus: MMIO write of ffffffff FAULT at 10ecc0 [ PRIVRING ]
[ 427.232594] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Enabling HDA controller
[ 427.349135] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bus: MMIO write of ffffffff FAULT at 10ecc0 [ PRIVRING ]
[ 2043.542404] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Enabling HDA controller
[ 2043.660727] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bus: MMIO write of ffffffff FAULT at 10ecc0 [ PRIVRING ]
[ 3546.529737] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Enabling HDA controller
[ 3546.648380] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bus: MMIO write of ffffffff FAULT at 10ecc0 [ PRIVRING ]
[ 3553.029472] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bus: MMIO write of 00000001 FAULT at 002a00 [ !ENGINE ]
[18074.628540] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Enabling HDA controller
[18074.745768] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bus: MMIO write of ffffffff FAULT at 10ecc0 [ PRIVRING ]
[18155.047400] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Enabling HDA controller
[18155.165943] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bus: MMIO write of ffffffff FAULT at 10ecc0 [ PRIVRING ]
[18165.513786] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Enabling HDA controller
[18165.632013] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bus: MMIO write of ffffffff FAULT at 10ecc0 [ PRIVRING ]
[21655.276734] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Enabling HDA controller
[21655.373305] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bus: MMIO write of ffffffff FAULT at 10ecc0 [ PRIVRING ]
[21690.180933] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Enabling HDA controller
[21690.297937] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bus: MMIO write of ffffffff FAULT at 10ecc0 [ PRIVRING ]
That’s all,
thanks for the time and patience
Cheers.
Update:
I’ve now come across this issue: [GF108M] MMIO FAULT and ce: init failed on 5.12-rc8 (#91) · Issues · drm / nouveau · GitLab
So I ran:
MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=nouveau glxinfo | grep OpenGL
libGL error: glx: failed to create dri3 screen
libGL error: failed to load driver: nouveau
libGL error: glx: failed to create dri2 screen
libGL error: failed to load driver: nouveau
so maybe I’m affected by that same bug, even tho that’s another GPU family.