2.6.38 Nvidia Problems : NVRM: The system BIOS may have misconfigured your GPU.
Hi, I am trying to run 2.6.38(x86_64) with nvidia 7200GS video card with 4GB of RAM. Although the kernel boots up, i just get a blank screen. I can ssh into the system. dmesg shows the following output : [ 11.535703] NVRM: This PCI I/O region assigned to your NVIDIA device is invalid: [ 11.535704] NVRM: BAR1 is 0M @ 0x0 (PCI:0000:01:00.0) [ 11.535706] NVRM: The system BIOS may have misconfigured your GPU. [ 11.535710] nvidia: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -1 [ 11.535728] NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine failed for 1 device(s). [ 11.535730] NVRM: None of the NVIDIA graphics adapters were initialized! [ 11.706755] vesafb: cannot reserve video memory at 0xa0000000 [ 11.706761] vesafb: abort, cannot ioremap video memory 0x500000 @ 0xa0000000 [ 11.706764] Trying to free nonexistent resource <00000000a0000000-00000000a04fffff> [ 11.706768] vesafb: probe of vesafb.0 failed with error -5 It seems lots of people had the same issues with some older kernels ( 2.6.27) and this apparently happens only with 4GB of RAM with nvidia. Anything less than 4GB of RAM is not a problem. Has anyone figured this out yet.
On Monday 25 Apr 2011 1:07:58 pm Venkatram Tummala wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to run 2.6.38(x86_64) with nvidia 7200GS video card with 4GB of RAM. Although the kernel boots up, i just get a blank screen. I can ssh into the system. dmesg shows the following output :
[ 11.535703] NVRM: This PCI I/O region assigned to your NVIDIA device is invalid: [ 11.535704] NVRM: BAR1 is 0M @ 0x0 (PCI:0000:01:00.0) [ 11.535706] NVRM: The system BIOS may have misconfigured your GPU. [ 11.535710] nvidia: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -1 [ 11.535728] NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine failed for 1 device(s). [ 11.535730] NVRM: None of the NVIDIA graphics adapters were initialized! [ 11.706755] vesafb: cannot reserve video memory at 0xa0000000 [ 11.706761] vesafb: abort, cannot ioremap video memory 0x500000 @ 0xa0000000 [ 11.706764] Trying to free nonexistent resource <00000000a0000000-00000000a04fffff> [ 11.706768] vesafb: probe of vesafb.0 failed with error -5
It seems lots of people had the same issues with some older kernels ( 2.6.27) and this apparently happens only with 4GB of RAM with nvidia. Anything less than 4GB of RAM is not a problem.
Has anyone figured this out yet.
Interesting. You might need to update your BIOS. Does it work properly with lesser RAM? Is it a custom built PC? Who is the BIOS manufacturer?
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:37:58AM -0700, Venkatram Tummala wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to run 2.6.38(x86_64) with nvidia 7200GS video card with 4GB of RAM.
Then please contact nvidia, they are the only ones that can support their closed-source kernel driver. best of luck, greg k-h
On Monday 25 Apr 2011 11:06:08 pm Greg KH wrote:
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:37:58AM -0700, Venkatram Tummala wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to run 2.6.38(x86_64) with nvidia 7200GS video card with 4GB of RAM.
Then please contact nvidia, they are the only ones that can support their closed-source kernel driver.
best of luck,
greg k-h
Greg, Just out of curiosity could I rule out the BIOS by saying that the kernel can remap the addresses if its wrong?
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 01:27:30AM +0530, mindentropy wrote:
On Monday 25 Apr 2011 11:06:08 pm Greg KH wrote:
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:37:58AM -0700, Venkatram Tummala wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to run 2.6.38(x86_64) with nvidia 7200GS video card with 4GB of RAM.
Then please contact nvidia, they are the only ones that can support their closed-source kernel driver.
best of luck,
greg k-h
Greg, Just out of curiosity could I rule out the BIOS by saying that the kernel can remap the addresses if its wrong?
No.
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