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

["Daniel da Veiga" <danieldaveiga@gmail.com>]

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.

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