‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Thursday, April 1, 2021 5:53 PM, o1bigtenor via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote: <--snip--> >
> Working through the following page: > > https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/VideoAcceleration.html > > I get to > > $ python2 extract_firmware.py # this script is for python 2 only > > where I am using > > NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.141.run > extract_firmware.py (from right here) > > my resultant is: > > root@debianbase:/tmp/nouveau/nvidia# ls > extract_firmware.py NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.141.run > root@debianbase:/tmp/nouveau/nvidia# python3 extract_firmware.py > Please run this in a directory where NVIDIA-Linux-x86-340.108 is a subdir. > > You can make this happen by running > wget > http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/340.108/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-340.108.run > sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-340.108.run --extract-only > > Note: You can use other versions/arches, see the source for what is > acceptable. > > In looking at the source code version 340.108 is that latest listed. > > What and how do I change things so that I can extract this firmware > blob so that hopefully my error message will disappear and my system > will as robust as it was for the last 4 years. (I added the 5th > monitor and that's when the issue appeared.) > You literally need to execute NVIDIA-Linux-x86-340.108.run --extract-only which will extract itself creating the subdirectory NVIDIA-Linux-x86-340.108 you can then run python2 extract_firmware.py
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