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Don Wilburn wrote: |
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> >I don't know how video cards are masked. I'm sure someone could tell |
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> me quicker than I can figure it out myself. |
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> I was looking in the wrong use.mask file. I found it. |
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> Nouveau was masked 4 years ago because it needs testing. So, I'll |
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> just unmask it and see what happens. |
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> One more question... for newer cards than mine, nouveau requires |
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> firmware blobs for some acceleration. Are those blobs independent of |
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> the computer, or do they require an intel/amd cpu? The Gentoo nvidia |
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> firmware package only shows amd64 and i386, I think. |
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> Adios, DW |
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The firmware should be independent of the architecture. Looking at the |
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ebuild, it looks like it downloads the x86 driver from nvidia, extracts |
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the files and then runs a python script to pull the firmware blob from |
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the driver. Eventually, it ends up in /lib/firmware/nouveau. Worst case |
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scenario you'll have to extract it on a x86 box (or maybe under qemu |
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running linux...) and copy the resulting file manually back to the Alpha. |
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Alan |
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