Any update ? The current "nouveau-firmware" package provided by Ubuntu is useless on 2/3 years old and newer graphic hardware. Modern graphic hardware require to extract more blobs.
For arch it is done like this: (see git clone https://aur.archlinux.org /nouveau-fw.git) nouveau-fw$ cat PKGBUILD # Maintainer: Martin Peres <martin.peres[at]free[dot]fr> # Contributor: Timothée Ravier <tim[at]siosm[dot]fr> pkgname=nouveau-fw pkgver=325.15 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="This package provides video & pgraph firmwares for all NVIDIA chipsets that need them" url='http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/' arch=('any') license=('custom') makedepends=('python2') source=("https://raw.github.com/imirkin/re-vp2/master/extract_firmware.py"; "http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/${pkgver}/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-${pkgver}.run";) md5sums=('SKIP' '528fc538584de6446384b9cec3099d6c') sha256sums=('SKIP' '3d790e4bfed24641f7cc76879144ab5d52b12271012ba381b0d33aa1a2e08775') build() { sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-${pkgver}.run --extract-only python2 extract_firmware.py } package() { install -dm 0755 "${pkgdir}"/usr/lib/firmware/nouveau/ cp -a nv* vuc-* "${pkgdir}"/usr/lib/firmware/nouveau/ } # vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et: ------ Which follows exactly instructions from http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/VideoAcceleration/#firmware -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1441631 Title: should update firmware because old 2009 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nouveau-firmware/+bug/1441631/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
