Bug#990662: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: firmware: failed to load nouveau/nvd9_fuc084 (-2)

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Andreas,

On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 9:03 PM Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 11/07/2022 18.35, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> > Since the nvidia* package do the heavy lifting of downloading locally
> > binary, it would make sense to add yet-another package for firmware
> > related within the group.
>
> Putting a downloader package in contrib under the Nvidia Team umbrella
> is fine, but someone needs to come up with an initial implementation.
> A quick glance at the script gave me the impression that you need to
> extract firmware from the 340xx legacy or older drivers.
> Looking at existing packages (e.g. firmware-b43-installer), a name of
> firmware-nouveau-installer might work.

If I understand correctly, all I need is the file
`NVIDIA-Linux-x86-340.108.run` which is distributed directly in
contrib in package nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-340xx-340.108.

I'll see if I can patch this package directly instead of duplicating
the code in another package.

-M