<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Marcin,<div class=""><div class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 3 Mar 2018, at 02:20, Marcin Wojtas <<a href="mailto:mw@semihalf.com" class="">mw@semihalf.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi Stuart,<br class=""><br class="">I am super-glad with the screenshot with graphic output you enclosed.<br class="">I will soon finally be able to test it on my own on new HW, but would<br class="">it be possible that your share a quick step-by-step howto with hints<br class="">and URLs to debian image you took, etc.?<br class=""><br class="">Just for the heads up, next week please expect PCIE support and a fix<br class="">for variables when booting from SD card (now they will work only when<br class="">booting from SPI flash) available publicly - I'll update once done.<br class=""><br class="">Thanks,<br class="">Marcin<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>I haven’t reinstalled the machine since these instructions: <a href="https://lists.einval.com/pipermail/macchiato/2018-January/000058.html" class="">https://lists.einval.com/pipermail/macchiato/2018-January/000058.html</a></div><div>I’m afraid not much has changed. I installed a firmware image onto SD card most recently from Leif, which proved that we could boot with a PCI-e card reliably(ish). It also proved that the 1.3 BIN is not different from the 1.2 BIN in how it trains NVIDIA graphics cards to PCI-e 1.0 speeds.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>After that, I installed xfce4, and put the following into /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau.conf:</div><div> options nouveau noaccel=1 runpm=0 nofbaccel=0 modeset=1</div><div><br class=""></div><div>All of that should be sufficient to get going. I used an HDMI cable as that means you can use the audio from the graphics card.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I’m keen to test people’s patches out, so I’ll grab the firmware when it is available.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Thanks,</div><div> Stuart</div></div></body></html>