Comment 20 for bug 925048

This bug persists. I consider it to be a pretty serious bug, too. Anyone with an nvc8 card who runs Gnome or Unity will have the card freeze up in seconds, although somewhat less frequently with KDE. Running firefox will immediately freeze the card. Ubuntu and Fedora both ship their liveCDs to enable nouveau by default and people cannot even run the installer for more than a minute, and most will have no idea what went wrong. Note that most nvc0 cards run just fine... I even have a nvc4 on another computer that runs perfectly, it is nvc8 that specifically has this problem, which very few (if any?) devs seem to posess. Feel free to google "nouveau gtx 580" to see that this is hitting a decent amount of people.

The card works just fine if using the extracted firmware, but this is a poor solution. I have been reading the various envytools/hwdocs on the fuc and been trying to investigate this but I have hit a wall, this issue is just too difficult for me to handle. I am pretty sure the solution is to do whatever Ben did to get the nvd7/nvd9 cards working, which looked like adding chipset specific firmware data to the loading code, but I don't know nearly enough to do this myself. If anyone has some advice, please let me know, I would really like to see this bug closed.