On 2024-10-12 19:55 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > My machine is rebooting randomly. To find out what is going on, I > looked at dmesg and found these errors. How can I fix them? If you > need extra information, please let me know which command I need to run > and I will provide its output. > > rajulocal@hogwarts /var/log % sudo dmesg| grep -i failed > [ 4568.756357] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: msvld: init failed, -19 > [ 4570.638966] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: firmware: failed to load > nouveau/nv98_fuc084 (-2) > [ 4570.639457] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: firmware: failed to load > nouveau/nv98_fuc084 (-2) > [ 4570.639462] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for > nouveau/nv98_fuc084 failed with error -2 > [ 4570.639476] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: firmware: failed to load > nouveau/nv98_fuc084d (-2) > [ 4570.639486] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: firmware: failed to load > nouveau/nv98_fuc084d (-2) > [ 4570.639489] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for > nouveau/nv98_fuc084d failed with error -2
This firmware is (only) needed for Video decoding. It is not distributable and needs to be extracted from the proprietary driver. For more information see https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/VideoAcceleration.html. Your random reboots are unrelated to that. Cheers, Sven
