Possible missing firmware ... nouveau

[claydoh]

Does that mean I would/might be better off using the Nvidia driver?

No idea. That is up to you. If it is working well for your usage, I can't say if the *potential* hassles and fiddling and tweaking you *might* need to do are worth it.

me, I am a sucker, and would probably install the 470 driver.

[joneall]

If things are working fine, then you should be fine, especially if you are using the non-free drivers for your card.

Does that mean I would/might be better off using the Nvidia driver?

[claydoh]

[FONT=monospace][COLOR=#000000]$ ubuntu-drivers devices [/COLOR]
== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 ==
modalias : pci:v000010DEd00000FC8sv00001458sd0000368Dbc03sc00 i00
vendor : NVIDIA Corporation
model : GK107 [GeForce GT 740]
driver : nvidia-driver-470-server - distro non-free
driver : nvidia-driver-390 - distro non-free
driver : nvidia-driver-450-server - distro non-free
driver : nvidia-driver-418-server - distro non-free
driver : nvidia-driver-470 - distro non-free recommended
driver : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin[/FONT]

This indicates you are using the nouveau driver, and that Nvidia 470 is the recommended one.

lsmod confirms you are using it as well.

It doesn't mean you are actually missing anything specific you your card, I don't think. But In well could be wrong.
this is a bit different from the similar messaging nAMD users can see, as those missing bits are for actual GPUs that are not installed, or don't have firmware available in distro repos -- workstation cards, mostly.

This isn't the case here, but I don't see what these modules are for, as the seem to indicate being for the non-free 535 drive, not nouveaur? Maybe??

[joneall]

Thanks for your reply.

Safe to ignore.
this sort of messaging is not uncommon, and for whatever reason someone somewhere in the development chain thinks these messages should be visible during boot.
If things are working fine, then you should be fine, especially if you are using the non-free drivers for your card.

That's part of my problem. I don't know which driver I am using. Dpkg seems to say the nvidia driver is not installed, yet it is mentioned by lsmod and ubuntu-driversl

[claydoh]

Safe to ignore.
this sort of messaging is not uncommon, and for whatever reason someone somewhere in the development chain thinks these messages should be visible during boot.
If things are working fine, then you should be fine, especially if you are using the non-free drivers for your card.

[joneall]

When installing this morning's update to 6.8.0-40, I got a string of over 60 errors like this:

W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/ad107/gsp/gsp-535.113.01.bin for module nouveau
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/ad107/gsp/bootloader-535.113.01.bin for module nouveau
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/ad107/gsp/booter_unload-535.113.01.bin for module nouveau
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/ad107/gsp/booter_load-535.113.01.bin for module nouveau
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/ad106/gsp/gsp-535.113.01.bin for module nouveau
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/ad106/gsp/bootloader-535.113.01.bin for module nouveau
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/ad106/gsp/booter_unload-535.113.01.bin for module nouveau
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/ad106/gsp/booter_load-535.113.01.bin for module nouveau

Things seem to work ok, but I worry about things like this.

Btw, how do I see which screen driver I am using? I get this:

$ dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia
[no response]

$lsmod | grep nouveau
nouveau 3100672 76
mxm_wmi 12288 1 nouveau
drm_gpuvm 45056 1 nouveau
drm_exec 12288 2 drm_gpuvm,nouveau
gpu_sched 61440 1 nouveau
drm_ttm_helper 12288 1 nouveau
i2c_algo_bit 16384 2 i915,nouveau
ttm 110592 3 drm_ttm_helper,i915,nouveau
drm_display_helper 237568 2 i915,nouveau
video 73728 2 i915,nouveau
wmi 28672 3 video,mxm_wmi,nouveau

$ ubuntu-drivers devices
== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 ==
modalias : pci:v000010DEd00000FC8sv00001458sd0000368Dbc03sc00 i00
vendor : NVIDIA Corporation
model : GK107 [GeForce GT 740]
driver : nvidia-driver-470-server - distro non-free
driver : nvidia-driver-390 - distro non-free
driver : nvidia-driver-450-server - distro non-free
driver : nvidia-driver-418-server - distro non-free
driver : nvidia-driver-470 - distro non-free recommended
driver : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin