John Martin wrote: > Bob Palowoda wrote: >> 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. > Did this motherboard work with an earlier build? If so, does it work > in b102 > with the NVDAgraphics+NVDAgraphicsr packages from b99? Yes these motherboards have been running all most every SXCE build for over a year now. I did try b101 packages on it. I'll give build 99 a shot. > > The code in the nvidia driver that uses the vgatext module hasn't > changed in over a year, > but I suspect the vgatext module load is just resolving a dependency > for the driver. > I'm not even sure it's the nvidia driver. Maybe changes in the pci-e nexus. Nothing hard to point to it yet. I'm pretty sure one of the guys over in Menlo has one of these. It's one of those cheap motherboards Fry's always has on sale.
---Bob
