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Errors from nouveau display driver on Debian - firmware: failed to load nouveau/nvc1_fuc084 (-2)
Although it's been 3 months since the question, I'll try to give a hint.
I just upgraded a box from Buster to Bullseye. Formerly I used an nvidia driver, but it was already obsolete in Buster and then ...
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Is nouveau completely free of non-free code?
The nouveau driver itself is entirely free software. On recent GPUs though it needs to load proprietary firmware into the GPU; see the list of NVIDIA blobs in the firmware-misc-nonfree package’s ...
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Linux Mint 20.3 laptop freezes randomly because of nouveau driver
A/ Since you report an error related to firmware, the nvidia proprietary driver would surely not have that problem.
However, the 340 version is the latest being compatible with your device and because ...
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lshw says I'm using proprietary driver even though I reinstalled my OS to revert back to nouveau
lshw says you’re using the amdgpu driver, which is the non-proprietary driver for recent AMD GPUs. It’s not the same as AMDGPU PRO, the proprietary driver.
Nouveau is the non-proprietary driver for ...
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Very bad performance, choppy UI
The nouveau driver is a free software driver, GPL-licensed, and included with the kernel - same as the Intel and AMD (Radeon) open source GPU drivers.
nouveau is compiled as a module and included with ...
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What is causing my EFI partition to become corrupt when booting CentOS after installation?
The name \EFI\BOOT\grubx64.efi tells me the system is not using the CentOS default UEFI boot path, but the fallback one. But the fallback boot path is \EFI\BOOT\bootx64.efi, which would be occupied by ...
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Intel-virtual-output - High temperature causes Linux crash
The problem is a physical one: the processor + GPU are producing more heat than the laptop can dissipate, and so it's overheating and ultimately crashing. (Does the crash look like the notebook is ...
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Set custom refresh rate for Sway (Wayland)
Use swaymsg -t get_outputs to list available resolutions and refresh rates.
Then add it to your sway config:
output DVI-I-1 mode [email protected] position 0,0
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Fedora, Kernel 4.6.7 and nVidia Optimus or Prime
I know Arch is the pinnacle of Linux distro documentation, but in this case there is also an Excellent guide to Bumblebee on Fedora.
Unfortunately, I'm afraid this will get you to the same place: "it ...
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X server, keyboard & mouse lockup with corrupted display
By the way: alt-sysrq-[rk] won't help here - it actually kills all the programs itself and putting you in that console scenario. However, that is not the problem. In a nutshell, it's nouveau.
From ...
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how to interpret nouveau feature matrix
I'm guessing HDMI video is basic enough that it's not listed in the feature matrix (along with other supported display connectors including VGA, single-link DVI, DisplayPort, LVDS...). If your NV50 ...
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Switching to a second X session kills the first
You have a kernel crash in the nouveau module, which will screw up the DRM module, which in turn will screw up an X server connecting to that module when it hits the bad state.
Upgrade to the newest ...
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Intel-virtual-output - High temperature causes Linux crash
Almost a solution ahead!
According to this documentation... it is possible to control the processor's fan power/rpm with the following commands...
echo 255 > /sys/devices/platform/asus-nb-wmi/...
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Is PFIFO an engine in nouveau kernel?
The actual issue was that nouveau is starting from initramfs.
To change load options for this kind of modules one need to run
sudo update-initramfs -u
to get the setting applied, otherwise no ...
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gnome maps program never runs
Assuming that GNOME Maps crashes on startup with this Gdk-Message in Debian 10 under GNOME:
Error 71 (Protocol error) dispatching to Wayland display.
It means that GDK as the GTK rendering engine ...
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How do I set my GPU's fan curve when using Nouveau?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/nouveau#Fan_control
As for the fan curve, man fancontrol :
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/fan_speed_control#Fancontrol_(lm-sensors)
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How to switch nvidia driver from "nouveau" to nvidia proprietary
After trying different things, this is what worked for me. I'd appreciate any suggestion or explanation if anything seems useless.
download the proprietary driver you want to use, from the nvidia ...
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Linux Mint 20.3 laptop freezes randomly because of nouveau driver
It seems like you're having the same problem as I had before with my Macbook Pro Late 2008, it had a Nvidia Geforce 9600M and it would just freeze randomly on me with the Nouveau drivers, it seems ...
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How to reenable Nouveau after uninstalling NVIDIA proprietary drivers?
Use this command to remove all packages from the package cache, so new ones will have to be downloaded: sudo apt-get clean
Remove the existing Nvidia driver installation: sudo apt-get purge *nvidia*
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Nouveau crash after resuming from sleep
It happens every now and then with kernels. I checked and a similar issue has been reported in Debian.
If you're into compiling kernels, you can try the (simple) fix in message #30, that is to disable ...
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Android studio freezing Fedora (nouveau and kernel crash)
Please install NVIDIA proprietary drivers. The crash is in nouveau (an open source driver for NVIDIA GPUs) which is not known to be stable enough.
Please consider filing a bug report: https://gitlab....
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MS teams makes the whole GUI stall: GpuWatchdog segfault
nouveau is known for being quite unstable and crash-prone, so I'd recommend installing NVIDIA proprietary drivers instead.
The error you're getting indicates exactly that.
Alternatively try installing ...
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Linux desktop freezes caused by Nouveau driver
TL;DR
You can replace it, and it's ok.
Step to do:
switch off nouveau.
install proprietary nvidia, link
remove nouveau.modeset = 0
Yes you can replace the nouveau-driver and I suggest you to do so ...
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Possible missing firmware in debian
Firstly, make sure apt is installing the latest nonfree packages by adding them to your sources.list. There are plenty of posts elsewhere telling you how to do that.
I had a similar issue with the ...
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huge files /var/log/messages and /var/log/warn
It looks like a known bug on nouveau driver (if i remember well, this is the opensource driver for NVidia graphic cards).
Source: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99900
To fix this you ...
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Switching to a second X session kills the first
The problem is in the fact that LightDM does not support multiple sessions started by startx.
Startx is an old way how to run multiple sessions but does not have to be supported by some modern systems....
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How can I debug loss of monitor signal after kernel upgrade?
Install the kerneloops package it will automatically submit a kernel oopses bug to oops.kernel.org through the kerneloops.service service.
kerneloops.service - Tool to automatically collect and ...
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How to prevent a kernel module video driver to probe a specific graphic card device
So, the path to the solution was not easy, but the solution in itself is
surprisingly straightfoward:
The idea is to use the install directive in a /etc/modprobe.d/ configuration file that redefine ...
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Cannot boot or shut down on Fedora 25 with last kernels is it a nouveau issue
I uninstalled nouveau and installed nvidia drivers, following this tutorial
Problem solved
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