Comment 72 for bug 1158689

(In reply to comment #52)
> Hello again, Ilia,
>
> > Can you grab envytools (https://github.com/envytools/envytools) and run
>
> bad news (or maybe expected from what we have been seeing earlier):
>
> [aloew@aloew-lap envytools-master]$ ./nva/nvapeek 10200c
> WARN: Can't probe 0000:01:00.0
> PCI init failure!
>
> [aloew@aloew-lap envytools-master]$ ./nva/nvapoke 10200c 10
> WARN: Can't probe 0000:01:00.0
> PCI init failure!

You need to run these as root.

> > I'd also still be interested in knowing whether a previously-known-good
> > version of the blob still works.
>
> I am 99.9% certain it does, as my Windows install with NVidia 285.09 driver
> also still runs fine, while any more recent Windows driver from NVidia hangs
> with the same symptoms as their Linux "blob" - I had just checked this last
> week with their latest Windows version 331.82, once again without any luck.

Ah OK, that's probably good enough of a test.

> Maybe indeed you could ask your new friends/contacts at NVidia about this?

I just bugged them about video decoding stuff a few weeks ago, don't want to use up all of my brownie points :)