Package: nouveau
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
The nouveau driver can not be used for the nvidia card gtx970m.
$ dmesg | grep nouveau
[ 3.683214] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: NVIDIA GM204 (124180a1)
[ 3.853674] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: version 84.04.83.00.0b
[ 3.854206] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: firmware: failed to load
nvidia/gm204/gr/sw_nonctx.bin (-2)
[ 3.854208] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for
nvidia/gm204/gr/sw_nonctx.bin failed with error -2
[ 3.854211] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr ctor failed, -2
[ 3.854215] nouveau: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -2
-> lspci output:
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM204M [GeForce GTX 970M] (rev a1)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] GM204M [GeForce GTX
970M]
Kernel modules: nouveau
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
