nvidia 9800 GT with nouveau on wheezy

I was trying to get google earth to work with the proprietary driver - it fails, so I thought I 
would try the nouveau driver as it now supports dual monitors.

Never got it to recognize the card ( seems strange as wheezey is just about stable? )
I followed the error -16 back to kernel issues and figured I was in over my head.


I'm wondering if there are others here that might know what differences there are between nouveau 
and nvidia for non gamers? Did they get the bugs out of nouveau?
Speed issues?


,.,.,.

Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.737229] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.753697] wmi: Mapper loaded
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.769488] nouveau 0000:09:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.769515] [drm] nouveau 0000:09:00.0: Detected an NV50 
generation card (0x092a00a2)
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.773111] [drm] nouveau 0000:09:00.0: Checking PRAMIN for VBIOS
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.816358] [drm] nouveau 0000:09:00.0: ... appears to be valid
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.816360] [drm] nouveau 0000:09:00.0: Using VBIOS from PRAMIN
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.816364] [drm] nouveau 0000:09:00.0: BIT BIOS found
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.816367] [drm] nouveau 0000:09:00.0: Bios version 62.92.89.00
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.816370] [drm] nouveau 0000:09:00.0: TMDS table version 2.0
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.816536] [drm] nouveau 0000:09:00.0: MXM: no VBIOS data, 
nothing to do
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.816539] [drm] nouveau 0000:09:00.0: DCB version 4.0
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.816542] [drm] nouveau 0000:09:00.0: DCB outp 00: 02000300 
00000028
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.816545] [drm] nouveau 0000:09:00.0: DCB outp 01: 01000302 
00020030
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.816547] [drm] nouveau 0000:09:00.0: DCB outp 02: 04011310 
00000028
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.816550] [drm] nouveau 0000:09:00.0: DCB outp 03: 02011312 
00020030
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.816552] [drm] nouveau 0000:09:00.0: DCB outp 04: 010223f1 
00c0c083
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.816555] [drm] nouveau 0000:09:00.0: DCB conn 00: 00001030
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.816557] [drm] nouveau 0000:09:00.0: DCB conn 01: 00002130
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.816559] [drm] nouveau 0000:09:00.0: DCB conn 02: 00000210
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.816562] [drm] nouveau 0000:09:00.0: DCB conn 03: 00000211
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.816564] [drm] nouveau 0000:09:00.0: DCB conn 04: 00000213
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.816568] [drm] nouveau 0000:09:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init 
table 0 at offset 0xC893
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.839884] [drm] nouveau 0000:09:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init 
table 1 at offset 0xCE3B
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.842696] [drm] nouveau 0000:09:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init 
table 2 at offset 0xDBB0
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.842703] [drm] nouveau 0000:09:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init 
table 3 at offset 0xDCAE
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.843765] [drm] nouveau 0000:09:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init 
table 4 at offset 0xDF16
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.843767] [drm] nouveau 0000:09:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init 
table at offset 0xDF7B
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.863575] [drm] nouveau 0000:09:00.0: 0xDF7B: Condition still 
not met after 20ms, skipping following opcodes
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.869099] [TTM] Zone  kernel: Available graphics memory: 
1542100 kiB
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.869102] [TTM] Initializing pool allocator
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.869109] [TTM] Initializing DMA pool allocator
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.869121] [drm] nouveau 0000:09:00.0: Detected 512MiB VRAM 
(GDDR3)
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.872605] [drm] nouveau 0000:09:00.0: 512 MiB GART (aperture)
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.921563] [drm] nouveau 0000:09:00.0: DCB encoder 1 unknown
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.921567] [drm] nouveau 0000:09:00.0: TV-1 has no encoders, 
removing
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.923450] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 1 
(10.10.2010).
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.923452] [drm] No driver support for vblank timestamp query.
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.928446] [drm] nouveau 0000:09:00.0: 2 available performance 
level(s)
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.928451] [drm] nouveau 0000:09:00.0: 0: core 300MHz shader 
600MHz memory 100MHz voltage 950mV fanspeed 100%
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.928456] [drm] nouveau 0000:09:00.0: 3: core 550MHz shader 
1375MHz memory 900MHz voltage 1000mV fanspeed 100%
Apr 21 13:37:45 singapore kernel: [44406.928460] [drm] nouveau 0000:09:00.0: c: core 555MHz shader 
1350MHz memory 900MHz voltage 1000mV fanspeed 34%
Apr 21 13:37:47 singapore kernel: [44409.011575] [TTM] Finalizing pool allocator
Apr 21 13:37:47 singapore kernel: [44409.011581] [TTM] Finalizing DMA pool allocator
Apr 21 13:37:47 singapore kernel: [44409.011750] [TTM] Zone  kernel: Used memory at exit: 0 kiB
Apr 21 13:37:47 singapore kernel: [44409.018049] nouveau: probe of 0000:09:00.0 failed with error -16

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