On Tuesday 14 March 2006 15.08, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > On 3/14/06, Jimmy Rosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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------
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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list