[gentoo-user] resource mapping wrong? pci-x nvidia fails to load

[Jimmy Rosen <listjiro@gmail.com>]

Hi folks, perhaps someone can shed some light on this problem?

nvidia driver fails to load. In dmesg I find this:

nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:03:00.0 to 64
NVRM: The IO regions for your NVIDIA card are invalid.
NVRM: Your system BIOS may have misconfigured your graphics card.
NVRM: bar1 (framebuffer) appears to be wrong: 0x0 0x0
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:03:00.0 disabled
nvidia: probe of 0000:03:00.0 failed with error -1
NVRM: the NVIDIA probe routine was not called for 1 device(s)!!
NVRM: no devices probed, aborting!
NVRM: this often occurs when rivafb is loaded and claims the device's 
resources.
NVRM: try removing the rivafb module (or reconfiguring your kernel to 
remove
NVRM: rivafb support) and then try loading the NVIDIA kernel module 
again.

Now, this is an NVidia GeForce 6600 PCI-X card on an Intel SE7525RP2 
motherboard with 1GB ram. Kernel 2.6.15 gentoo sources r1, nvidia 
drivers nvidia-kernel 1.0.6629-r5 and nvidia-glx 1.0.6629-r6.

According to what little I've found on the web, there seems to be 
something weird with bios? I've tried cmos clear, and restarting with 
all cards unplugged, but I can't get it to work.
Some sites suggested there might be some bios settings left if the 
pci-x had been plugged in before the ram expansion, which was the 
case here.

Any suggestions?


Thanks
Jimmy
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