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

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

[Jimmy Rosen]

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

[Mike Williams]

On Tuesday 14 March 2006 13:37, Jimmy Rosen wrote:
> 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.

Wow, I never knew Nvidia made a PCI-X graphics card.
Perhaps it's a driver issue, 6629-r5 is quite old. I've got a 6600GT PCI-e, 
and I use the latest nvidia glx and drivers available in the tree.

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

[Daniel da Veiga]

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

[Jimmy Rosen]

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

[Mike Williams]

On Tuesday 14 March 2006 15:21, Jimmy Rosen wrote:
> And in response to the other post by Mike Williams, it is of course a
> PCI Express card, my whimsical mind...

Ohh, the humour :o)

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


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

I'd go looking for a BIOS update now.

How did this problem start? New card, new motherboard, etc?

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

[Daniel da Veiga]

On 3/14/06, Jimmy Rosen <listjiro@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>

Well, something is wrong, a LOT wrong when it can't find the board and
use it. Well, if I were you (I had some GForces some time ago), I
would remove all and any support for riva or nv or nvidia from kernel,
boot into the new kernel and try NVidia proprietary drivers runnign
directy their stuff, not portage (it was the way I had my first NVidia
working before I knew portage had nvidia stuff in the tree).

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

[Richard Fish]

On 3/14/06, Jimmy Rosen <listjiro@gmail.com> wrote:
> Now, this is an NVidia GeForce 6600 PCI-X card on an Intel SE7525RP2

Have you tried updating the motherboard BIOS?

According to the thread here:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46824

"We had feedback from Intel and it's common PCI problem with SE7525GP2"
"Hopefully Intel fixes (their) firmware so I can use the two
SE7525GP2s now sitting in the cabinet."

This was over a year ago, and it looks like intel has done a couple of
BIOS updates since then.

http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/filter_results.aspx?strTypes=all&ProductID=2095&OSFullName=SuSE*+Linux+Enterprise+Server+9.0&lang=eng&strOSs=127&submit=Go%21

Of particular interest in the release notes:

- SP/GP Tracker 20204 :  [X] nVidia graphics cards do not work on GP2.

Ok, so everything references a GP2, and you have an RP2, but maybe
they have the same problem/fix?

-Richard

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

[Jimmy Rosen]

On Thursday 16 March 2006 06.01, Richard Fish wrote:
> On 3/14/06, Jimmy Rosen <listjiro@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Now, this is an NVidia GeForce 6600 PCI-X card on an Intel
> > SE7525RP2
>
> Have you tried updating the motherboard BIOS?
>
> According to the thread here:
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46824
>
> "We had feedback from Intel and it's common PCI problem with
> SE7525GP2" "Hopefully Intel fixes (their) firmware so I can use the
> two SE7525GP2s now sitting in the cabinet."
>
> This was over a year ago, and it looks like intel has done a couple
> of BIOS updates since then.
>
> http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/filter_results.
>aspx?strTypes=all&ProductID=2095&OSFullName=SuSE*+Linux+Enterprise+S
>erver+9.0&lang=eng&strOSs=127&submit=Go%21
>
> Of particular interest in the release notes:
>
> - SP/GP Tracker 20204 :  [X] nVidia graphics cards do not work on
> GP2.
>
> Ok, so everything references a GP2, and you have an RP2, but maybe
> they have the same problem/fix?
>
> -Richard


Thanks a bunch guys. Really helpful. Saved the day you did.
Now I'm really happy, because I can finally bring my personal 
workstation home to my apartment, instead of keeping it in the lab to 
be able to do any real work.

I finally got the approval from the sysadmins to flash the bios with 
the xxx04xxx18xxx update, and ... it worked like a charm. The problem 
is gone and all is well, so far at least.

If anyone is considering this kind of setup based on the Intel 
SE7525GP2 or SE7525RP2, I would recommend going with a cheaper dual 
core athlon or opteron setup instead. This thing is way overpriced 
and doesn't give enough bang for the bucks.



Harebrafolk
Jimmy
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