<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> On 12/15/09 15:02, Younes Manton wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:586c2acd0912151502o303f6b14g7277289ff5dc69b3@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Justin Mattock <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:justinmattock@gmail.com"><justinmattock@gmail.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I had figured this would happen, but was curious to see if this new bad boy would work. (probably why fedora 12 doesnt boot as well). basically the system freezes during boot once drn nouveau is loaded. here's dmesg captured with firescope:(a bit long) </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> <..snip..> </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""><3>[ 6.891531] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: No ctxprog for NV94 </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> <..snip..> </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> machine is an iMac with the gt130 card I loaded mesa,dri, but didn't find any firmware(if any) for /lib/firmware </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> You need the firmware, it's not carried in the upstream tree.[1] There's also a PPC-specific patch currently in the Nouveau tree and on various lists that you need to apply.[2] [1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://people.freedesktop.org/~pq/">http://people.freedesktop.org/~pq/</a> [2] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/linux-2.6/commit/?id=a51b847bebf85e8539db6afe1627a3a17a05dfcc">http://cgit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/linux-2.6/commit/?id=a51b847bebf85e8539db6afe1627a3a17a05dfcc</a> </pre> </blockquote> alright, I'll look for this firmware, and then go from there. Justin P. Mattock </body> </html>