Re: 5.6-rc3 nouveau failure, 5.6-rc2 OK

From: Gabriel C
Date: Wed Feb 26 2020 - 22:15:30 EST


Am Do., 27. Feb. 2020 um 01:24 Uhr schrieb Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Hello,

>
> [94.455712] [T411] nouveau 0000:07:00.0 disp ctor failed, -12
>
> Welcome to openSUSE Tumbleweed 20200224 - Kernel 5.6.0-rc3 (tty1)
>
> ens3s0: 192.168.10.214 .......
>
> login:
>
>
> I can login here but X does not start -- lspci
>
> 07:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU117 [GeForce GTX
> 1650] (rev a1)
>
> from dmesg:-
>
> [Wed Feb 26 22:42:39 2020] nouveau 0000:07:00.0: NVIDIA TU117 (167000a1)
> [Wed Feb 26 22:42:39 2020] nouveau 0000:07:00.0: bios: version
> 90.17.2a.00.39
> [Wed Feb 26 22:44:12 2020] nouveau 0000:07:00.0: disp ctor failed, -12
> [Wed Feb 26 22:44:12 2020] nouveau: probe of 0000:07:00.0 failed with
> error -12
>

*Warning* I have no idea bout Nvidia GPU HW :-). I saw this commit in
linux-firmware git added 8 days ago:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/?id=2277987a593d54c1e922a9f25445802071015f42

Maybe you just need to update your firmware package.

BR,

Gabriel C.