From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FJAHL-0004Ph-P8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:13:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2EECeeh009007; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:12:40 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.198]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2EE8chJ002273 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:08:39 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i21so1558331wra for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 06:08:38 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=VyTky3xolWqs7Su2wkNmJ2ffMrFRJU+QJRe9h0j30vdLtMU8Bn+RI7wVRhMQ1Pi7QNUIB+zt3yIWpCZ0Xbns0UfbzC6ziV5PsmmuoII8XuYyaD5k2KUQ8oN6Onm39pt6CsFgS4p2Xf2Sp0shIZtNxTt50fe5wnrYM9/XP1WrbGI= Received: by 10.65.51.16 with SMTP id d16mr2973434qbk; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 06:08:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.211.16 with HTTP; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 06:08:38 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <342e1090603140608xd9dc585s1e1593cf57c02435@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 11:08:38 -0300 From: "Daniel da Veiga" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] resource mapping wrong? pci-x nvidia fails to load In-Reply-To: <200603141437.56952.listjiro@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <200603141437.56952.listjiro@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k2EE8chJ002273 X-Archives-Salt: 08cb5211-cd39-4583-a347-d72cda4ad611 X-Archives-Hash: f9ae5cf5687f812345b3ca272146a49c On 3/14/06, Jimmy Rosen 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 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list