[SOLVED] Can't Load Nvidia Firmware into the Kernel

dkuflu · n00b Joined: 14 Jun 2022 Posts: 10

I'm trying to install nouveau, and need to load the firmware of my graphics card (GT 1030) into the kernel, as the nouveau guide states. However, when I try to load the firmware and compile the kernel, I get an error stating the firmware couldn't be included. Here's the error:

https://paste.pics/8101fa55d50f7c9adf83292cd996e4e9

I presume that it can't be loaded as the path "/lib/firmware/nvidia/gp108" is a directory rather than I file, but I don't know the correct way of including the firmware.

eccerr0r · Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2022 12:15 pm Post subject:

Yes it's a directory, and it was removed from the kernel due to it being closed source. You can get a copy by merging sys-kernel/linux-firmware .
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dkuflu · n00b Joined: 14 Jun 2022 Posts: 10

I already emerged linux-firmware and nvidia-firmware. The directory has the firmware files (i think), but the kernel still can't load it.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2022 3:56 pm Post subject:

dkuflu,

Share your kernel .config file on a pastebin please.

You cannot include whole directories, which is what I think you are trying to do from your error message.
My amd card needs 21 firmware files and I hove them all listed separately in the kernel.

dkuflu · n00b Joined: 14 Jun 2022 Posts: 10

Thanks! I think adding all the files under /lib/firmware/nvidia/gp108 one by one solved the issue.