Changeset 1cc5345 for postlfs/config/firmware.xml

Timestamp:

03/02/2016 09:42:47 PM (8 years ago)

Author:

Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 7.10, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

0498e8f0

Parents:

936bea1

Message:

Add section about nvidia firmware.
Update kde4 package links.
Tag kde and dependencies.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@17051 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• postlfs/config/firmware.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

postlfs/config/firmware.xml

@@ -346 +346 @@
   </sect2>
 
-  <sect2 id="ati-video-firmware">
+  <sect2 id="video-firmware">
+    <title>Firmware for Video Cards</title>
+
+  <sect3 id="ati-video-firmware">
     <title>Firmware for ATI video chips (R600 and later)</title>
 
@@ -391 +394 @@
   Graphics support ---&gt;
       Direct Rendering Manager ---&gt;
-            &lt;*&gt; Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 ... support)  [CONFIG_DRM]
-            &lt;m&gt; ATI Radeon                                      [CONFIG_DRM_RADEON]</literal></screen>
+        &lt;*&gt; Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 ... support)  [CONFIG_DRM]
+      &lt;m&gt; ATI Radeon                                        [CONFIG_DRM_RADEON]</literal></screen>
 
     <para>Loading several large blobs from /lib/firmware takes a noticeable
@@ -402 +405 @@
     needed radeon blob if you do that.</para>
 
+  </sect3>
+
+  <sect3 id="nvidia-video-firmware">
+    <title>Firmware for Nvidia video chips</title>
+
+    <para>Some Nvidia graphics chips need firmware updates to take advantage 
+    of all the card's capability.  These are generally the GeForce 8, 9, 9300,
+    and 200-900 series chips.  For more exact information, see <ulink
+    url="https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/VideoAcceleration/#firmware">
+    https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/VideoAcceleration/#firmware</ulink>.</para>
+    
+    <para>First, the kernel Nvidia driver must be activated:</para>
+
+<screen><literal>Device Drivers ---&gt;
+  Graphics support ---&gt;
+      Direct Rendering Manager ---&gt;
+        &lt;*&gt; Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 ... support)  [CONFIG_DRM]
+      &lt;*/m&gt; Nouveau (NVIDIA) cards                          [CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU]</literal></screen>
+
+    <para>The steps to install the Nvidia firmware are:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>wget https://raw.github.com/imirkin/re-vp2/master/extract_firmware.py
+wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/325.15/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-325.15.run
+sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-325.15.run --extract-only
+python extract_firmware.py 
+mkdir -p /lib/firmware/nouveau
+cp -d nv* vuc-* /lib/firmware/nouveau/</userinput></screen>
+
+  </sect3>
   </sect2>