> 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?
> 
> 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.
> 

 Just a followup on this.  I turned the ACPI off in the bios and it works now.  
I suspect it does have something to do with the acpi changes in build 102.
I also tried disabling the acpi-user-options but that did not cure the problem.

 I don't know what I lose other than the powernow features which doesn't even 
work
on this platform to begin with.  So for now it is an acceptable workaround.

---Bob
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