should update firmware because old 2009

[JulienIsorce]

Hi, for vdpau decoder to work with gallium/nouveau it is requires to update this nouveau-firmware package by following the instructions here:

http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/VideoAcceleration/#firmware

Even in utopic and vivid it is still this old 2009 package. Please upgrade it. Thx!

[JulienIsorce (julien-isorce)]

Any update ? The current "nouveau-firmware" package provided by Ubuntu is useless on 2/3 years old and newer graphic hardware. Modern graphic hardware require to extract more blobs.

For arch it is done like this: (see git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/nouveau-fw.git)

nouveau-fw$ cat PKGBUILD
# Maintainer: Martin Peres <martin.peres[at]free[dot]fr>
# Contributor: Timothée Ravier <tim[at]siosm[dot]fr>

pkgname=nouveau-fw
pkgver=325.15
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="This package provides video & pgraph firmwares for all NVIDIA chipsets that need them"
url='http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/'
arch=('any')
license=('custom')
makedepends=('python2')
source=("https://raw.github.com/imirkin/re-vp2/master/extract_firmware.py"
        "http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/${pkgver}/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-${pkgver}.run")
md5sums=('SKIP'
         '528fc538584de6446384b9cec3099d6c')
sha256sums=('SKIP'
            '3d790e4bfed24641f7cc76879144ab5d52b12271012ba381b0d33aa1a2e08775')

build() {
  sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-${pkgver}.run --extract-only
  python2 extract_firmware.py
}

package() {
  install -dm 0755 "${pkgdir}"/usr/lib/firmware/nouveau/
  cp -a nv* vuc-* "${pkgdir}"/usr/lib/firmware/nouveau/
}

# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:

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Which follows exactly instructions from http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/VideoAcceleration/#firmware

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.