Call for testing: Nouveau Timing Management

I found this call for testing on Phoronix (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODY2Nw)::) Hi,

Roy Spliet, Emil Velikov and I are working on getting memory timing support to nouveau (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_timings).

We badly need your help as the vbios timing table (that stores the timings that should be set when we up/down-clock the memory clocks) contains a lot of magic.

If you want to help us, please follow this link: http://github.com/pathscale/pscnv/wiki/TestingTimings

For those who already sent us your info and had a bios table containing timing values, please re-read the page, we now also need the strap register now (sorry).

Thanking you by advance.

Cheers,

Martin

The _instructions_ are pretty straightforward, you just need to compile a couple of tools (envytools, pgtest, vbtracetool - see the tools' README files for build instructions or just run 'make' if there is no README).

Packages you might need to install for compiling the tools: ``` sudo apt-get install git libpci-dev libpciaccess-dev libxml2-dev cmake flex bison

I was missing libxml2-dev which caused errors when compiling envytools

Thanks, added it. It's difficult to find out which packages are needed if you already have lots of -dev packages installed.

It would help if pasted links did not have asterisks in them, for example:

git clone git://github.com/pathscale/envytools.git

See the README in envytools/ because you first need to use cmake before you can make. I had to install cmake, flex, and bison.

I sent them the peeks and vbios dumps of my GT 430 = GF108 = NVC1 which is so new that lspci does not show a model for it:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0de1 (rev a1) 01:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation Device 0bea (rev a1)

What the heck?

h***** gith*** *****

That spam protection (or whatever it is) wasn't there when I wrote the post (I promise).

Anyways, it's:

github.com

efflandt said:

See the README in envytools/ because you first need to use cmake before you can make.

Yeah, seems they moved to cmake in the meantime.

Who is cariboo907 and why do they break things by inserting astericks?

efflandt said: Who is cariboo907 and why do they break things by inserting astericks?

I'm a moderator, and I was trying to fix your link, which I have done now. The admins have set up word filtering in the hopes of slowing spammers from inundating the forum.

github.com

The problem has been fixed

Yes and I remember when "MacUntu" name was asterisked out. It got fixed somewhere along the line.