nouveau question

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings all;

Is there any hope of getting a driver for this video card:

gene at coyote:/etc/init.d$ dmesg|grep nouveau
[    1.743185] nouveau  [  DEVICE][0000:03:00.0] BOOT0  : 0x0a8180b1
[    1.743233] nouveau  [  DEVICE][0000:03:00.0] Chipset: GT218 (NVA8)
[    1.743273] nouveau  [  DEVICE][0000:03:00.0] Family : NV50
[    1.744354] nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:03:00.0] checking PRAMIN for image...
[    1.810394] nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:03:00.0] ... appears to be valid
[    1.810434] nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:03:00.0] using image from PRAMIN
[    1.810613] nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:03:00.0] BIT signature found
[    1.810675] nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:03:00.0] version 70.18.5f.00.00
[    1.810973] nouveau  [     PFB][0000:03:00.0] RAM type: DDR3
[    1.811019] nouveau  [     PFB][0000:03:00.0] RAM size: 1024 MiB
[    1.811065] nouveau  [     PFB][0000:03:00.0]    ZCOMP: 960 tags
[    2.453221] nouveau  [  PTHERM][0000:03:00.0] FAN control: none / external
[    2.453273] nouveau  [  PTHERM][0000:03:00.0] fan management: disabled
[    2.453322] nouveau  [  PTHERM][0000:03:00.0] internal sensor: yes
[    2.453691] nouveau  [     DRM] VRAM: 1024 MiB
[    2.453735] nouveau  [     DRM] GART: 1048576 MiB
[    2.453781] nouveau  [     DRM] TMDS table version 2.0
[    2.453827] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB version 4.0
[    2.453873] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB outp 00: 01000302 00020030
[    2.453920] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB outp 01: 02000300 00000000
[    2.453959] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB outp 02: 02011362 00020010
[    2.454004] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB outp 03: 01022310 00000000
[    2.454056] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB conn 00: 00001030
[    2.454118] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB conn 01: 00002161
[    2.454187] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB conn 02: 00000200
[    2.463698] nouveau  [     DRM] 3 available performance level(s)
[    2.463747] nouveau  [     DRM] 0: core 135MHz shader 270MHz memory 135MHz voltage 850mV
[    2.463805] nouveau  [     DRM] 1: core 405MHz shader 810MHz memory 405MHz voltage 900mV
[    2.463863] nouveau  [     DRM] 3: core 520MHz shader 1238MHz memory 600MHz voltage 1000mV
[    2.463919] nouveau  [     DRM] c: core 405MHz shader 810MHz memory 405MHz voltage 900mV
[    2.474053] nouveau  [     DRM] MM: using COPY for buffer copies
[    2.517306] nouveau  [     DRM] allocated 1920x1080 fb: 0x70000, bo f7222a00
[    2.517421] fbcon: nouveaufb (fb0) is primary device
[    2.585123] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: fb0: nouveaufb frame buffer device
[    2.585133] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: registered panic notifier
[    2.585149] [drm] Initialized nouveau 1.1.1 20120801 for 0000:03:00.0 on minor 0

That can play a news video from the MSN sites?

I have a 10 megabaud net circuit, but the videos play like a 28.8k dialup.
Getting about 1/4 second of video and audio, 3/4 second of frozen silence
now.  Repeat till I'm driven out of my skull and hit the quit button.

Or are there any options I can set in an /etc/X11/xorg.conf that would help?

FWIW, turning off the hardware accel in FF actually helps.

Currently on an X86_32, 3.12.6 PAE 32 bit kernel.

Thanks.

Cheers, Gene
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