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

[Jimmy Rosen <listjiro@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 14 March 2006 15.08, Daniel da Veiga wrote:
> On 3/14/06, Jimmy Rosen <listjiro@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Have you tried doying what the module message told you to? Remove
> rivafb from you kernel and then load the nvidia module.
>
> > 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.
>
> I don't think its your BIOS, probably a imcompatibility between
> riva framebuffer support and nvidia module. As I remember, you can
> use just VESA for framebuffer and disable this specific framebuffer
> driver. That might solve your problem.
>
> --
> Daniel da Veiga
> Computer Operator - RS - Brazil
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Hello,

Yes, I have removed all riva support from the kernel, which didn't 
help, and also tried with a small and clean 2.6.14 kernel that 
doesn't have rivafb as module or compiled in.
The motherboard also has an ATI card, which I have tried disabling in 
bios, but that doesn't help either.

And in response to the other post by Mike Williams, it is of course a 
PCI Express card, my whimsical mind...

I updated to nvidia drivers 8178, which give a slightly different 
dmesg, but still don't work. dmesg:

nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
NVRM: This PCI I/O region assigned to your NVIDIA device is invalid:
NVRM: BAR1 is 0M @ 0x00000000 (PCI:0003:00.0)
NVRM: The system BIOS may have misconfigured your graphics card.
nvidia: probe of 0000:03:00.0 failed with error -1
NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine failed for 1 device(s).
NVRM: None of the NVIDIA graphics adapters were initialized!
< --- cut some other non-related usb stuff --- >
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
NVRM: This PCI I/O region assigned to your NVIDIA device is invalid:
NVRM: BAR1 is 0M @ 0x00000000 (PCI:0003:00.0)
NVRM: The system BIOS may have misconfigured your graphics card.
nvidia: probe of 0000:03:00.0 failed with error -1
NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine failed for 1 device(s).
NVRM: None of the NVIDIA graphics adapters were initialized!


It does seem odd that the new 8178 driver probes the card twice and 
thinks it has found adapter_s_.


Thankful for any further suggestions... I'm quite lost as to what to 
do at the moment.

Jimmy
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