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------ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
