Shouldn't this work?

Tom Horsley horsley1953 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 5 13:22:28 UTC 2014


On Tue, 04 Nov 2014 11:10:04 -0800
Adam Williamson wrote:

> > I thought I read that support for Maxwell (I think its maxwell :-) was in the latest
> > nouveau and mesa. Is the "latest" not in f21? Is it a bug that it doesn't work?
> > (I just get a black screen on my UHD monitor with display port cable).  
> 
> mesa isn't going to affect basic console output. The key thing there is
> mostly the code that's in the kernel, certainly not mesa and probably
> not the DDX. F21 has kernel 3.17.

Well, I managed to boot in multiuser mode, and found a "failed to load fuc409c"
nvidia firmware message in dmesg, so I submitted a bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1160706

If it is missing firmware, maybe nouveau isn't packaged correctly? I
certainly have no idea :-).


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