Ju"rgen Keil wrote: > >> I did a live upgrade today from build 99 to build 101. It appeared to be >> successful >> except that the graphical login screen didn't appear. I tried both the gdm >> and CDE >> ogin managers, with the same result. On a reboot, I saw these in the >> messages log: >> >> Oct 29 09:53:05 amd pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: nvidia255 >> Oct 29 09:53:05 amd genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] nvidia255 is >> /pseudo/nvidia at 255 >> Oct 29 09:53:36 amd nvidia: [ID 702911 kern.notice] NOTICE: NVRM: >> RmInitAdapter failed! (0x12:0x2b:1636) >> Oct 29 09:53:36 amd nvidia: [ID 702911 kern.notice] NOTICE: NVRM: nv_open: >> rm_init_adapter(0) failed >> >> This worked for build 99 and earlier. >> The above failure message indicates the driver isn't receiving interrupts from the card. One of the changes between b99 and 100/101 is the driver will attempt to use MSI if the card advertises it. To force the use of fixed legacy interrupts, in /kernel/drv/nvidia.conf uncomment the line below and reboot:
#Uncomment the following line if you need to disable the use of MSI interrupts #AllowMSI=0; I don't know the original context of the above message, in particular the hardware details, so it is difficult to guess what might be the cause.
