John Martin wrote: > Bob Palowoda wrote: >> Just curious if any one else is running into this. I have a couple of >> ECS dual core Athlon motherboards (VIA based) with 7600gs/gtx pci-e >> cards. I noticed booting build 102 I get a hard hang when the kernel >> is loading. kdb indicate the hard hang is right >> when it loads the gfx_private module. I take the video card out and >> it boots fine with >> the vga onboard card. Now was there some changes that happened to >> this build >> that would involve the pci-e bus nexus layer in combination with the >> nvidia pci-e card? > Try disabling MSIs in /kernel/drv/nvidia.conf (uncomment the last > line in the file). > This is the default starting in b103 until known MSI interrupt > delivery issues > are fixed. (However, none so far have been reported on VIA chipsets). > > > Disabling the MSI interrupt was one of the first things I tried. Unfortunate it did not work. I failed to mention that during a normal boot from the dvd it will reset the machine when it loads that driver. I did noticed it only affected ECS motherboards K8M890x which are common these days. The nforce chipset did not show this failure mode. Will wait to see if anybody else hits this.
---Bob
