Bug 103033 - [NVA8] nouveau can't start my discrete nvidia card (BIOS / ACPI error)
Summary: [NVA8] nouveau can't start my discrete nvidia card (BIOS / ACPI error)
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Driver/nouveau (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other All
: medium normal
Assignee: Nouveau Project
QA Contact: Xorg Project Team
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Reported: 2017-09-28 22:07 UTC by Alexandre Dutriaux
Modified: 2019-12-04 09:31 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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dmesg with nouveau.debug=trace + acpidump + xorg.conf (100.92 KB, application/zip)
2017-09-28 22:07 UTC, Alexandre Dutriaux
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Description Alexandre Dutriaux 2017-09-28 22:07:27 UTC
Created attachment 134558 [details]
dmesg with nouveau.debug=trace + acpidump + xorg.conf

I've got a portable computer with an Intel graphic card and a nvidia discrete card (G 105M).
I've installed Fedora 26. 
Everything should run fine with nouveau and Prime.

However, xrandr --listproviders only send me 1 provider, which is the Intel card. 

I've seen a problem with the BIOS and the nvidia card : 

[    2.777871] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Invalid PCI ROM header signature: expecting 0xaa55, got 0x0000
[    2.777887] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: unable to locate usable image
[    2.777895] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios ctor failed, -22

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$ lspci |grep -E "3D|VGA"
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218M [GeForce G 105M] (rev a2)

$ xrandr --listproviders
Providers: number : 1
Provider 0: id: 0x46 cap: 0xb, Source Output, Sink Output, Sink Offload crtcs: 3 outputs: 4 associated providers: 0 name:Intel
Comment 1 Ilia Mirkin 2017-09-28 22:39:48 UTC
The issue is that shadow_fetch() fails for ACPI. It tries to read a 0xf800-sized image and apparently can't. Both the fast and slow methods end up the same. Also it's NPDE is set to "HYB$", although looking at the code that shouldn't really matter.

However something's there, since it gets far enough to e.g. check the NPDE. Either the _ROM method is buggy, or we're driving it slightly incorrectly.
Comment 2 Martin Peres 2019-12-04 09:31:34 UTC
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