From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Peres Subject: Re: Happy Easter! A gift, someone? Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:59:24 +0200 Message-ID: <4DB67B5C.2070804@free.fr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nouveau-bounces+gcfxn-nouveau=m.gmane.org-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org Errors-To: nouveau-bounces+gcfxn-nouveau=m.gmane.org-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org To: nouveau-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org List-Id: nouveau.vger.kernel.org Le 24/04/2011 15:14, Robert Kaiser a =E9crit : > Hi nouveau-team! > > First of all, Happy Easter! But what would Easter be without some = > gifts? ;-) > > The truth is, I upgraded my system recently, and even if that means = > that I moved to a manufacturer-provided open graphics stack, I still = > want to help nouveau somewhat, if useful and possible. > > Because of that, I'd be willing to send my old graphics card to a = > nouveau developer, given that may result in some work to make stuff = > like that work better (I'm not sure how much that generation of cards = > is still in the plans of anyone to work on, but let's see). > > The card in question is a "ASUS EN7600GT 2DHT Silent", which has a = > GeForce 7600 GT chip (NV4B) and a somewhat large passive cooling = > system to not require any active cooling. > > Of course, that didn't match ideally with nouveau not supporting any = > power management on NV4*, so it ran at pretty high temperatures all = > the time since I switched away from the binary driver. > > Probably because of that, the heads of 3 electrolyte capacitors on the = > card are slightly curved out - but it looked to me like the card would = > still work as "well" as it did all the time before - that is, it had = > massive problems with nouveau all the time and only worked somewhat = > usefully for longer periods of time when the kernel was launched with = > nouveau.noaccel=3D1 - which is not ideal, of course. > > So, if anyone's around who wants to play with that card and try to = > improve nouveau working with it, tell me where to send it and I will. = > You get it for free, I'm also playing for sending it to you. As I'm in = > Vienna, Austria, Europe, I'd prefer to send to Europe, but I should in = > theory be able to send anywhere on this Earth (sorry, no luck atm when = > you're based on Mars or a different solar system). > > Robert Kaiser Hi Robert, If the card is problematic, we clearly should get it. I'm only working = on power management, but if no-one is interested in it by the end of the = week, I would gladly accept this card as I have no nv4X and would like = to make sure my PM code is working on it. I may also try to fix the = instability problem, but only when I make sure the problem isn't related = to temperature. Thanks for doing this, Martin Peres