From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 19 04:33:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8F5016A4CE for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 04:33:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out014.verizon.net (out014pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F74043D2F for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 04:33:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from leblanc@keyslapper.org) Received: from keyslapper.org ([68.163.166.57]) by out014.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20041119043312.ECRY1339.out014.verizon.net@keyslapper.org> for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:33:12 -0600 Received: from keyslapper.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keyslapper.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iAJ4XB53014231 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 23:33:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from leblanc@keyslapper.org) Received: (from leblanc@localhost) by keyslapper.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id iAJ4XB22014230 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 23:33:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from leblanc) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 23:33:10 -0500 From: Louis LeBlanc To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20041119043310.GA14003@keyslapper.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20041119034238.GA99245@mx.networkiv.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20041119034238.GA99245@mx.networkiv.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out014.verizon.net from [68.163.166.57] at Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:33:12 -0600 Subject: Re: nvidia driver install-unable to read seeprom X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 04:33:14 -0000 On 11/18/04 10:42 PM, Stephen L. Martin sat at the `puter and typed: > Hello, > > I am trying to install the nvidia-driver (1.0.6113_2) on 5.3-RELEASE. > The installation fails and locks the computer, what looks like, right at > the end. This is what happens: > > Install -o root -g wheel -m 555 nvidia.ko /boot/modules > kldxref /boot/modules > ===> lib > ===> lib/GL > ===> lib/libnvidia-tls > ===> lib/libGLcore > ===> lib/libXvMCNVIDIA > ===> lib/compat > ===> lib/compat/libGL > ===> lib/compat/libnvidia-tls > ===> lib/compat/libGLcore > ===> x11 > ===> x11/driver > ===> x11/extension > ===> etc > ===> doc > ahd1: mem 0-0x1fff at device 10.1 > on pci0 Unable to read SEEPROM > > At this point the whole machine is locked...can't even ping it...and > this happens every time I try the install. Everything else runs > fine...only this install is causing problems. > > Here's some relevant dmesg output: > > da0 at ahd0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device > da0: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz, offset 127, 16bit), Tagged > Queueing Enabled > da0: 35074MB (71833096 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4471C) > ahd0: port > 0xed00-0xedff,0xe000-0xe0ff mem > 0xfe400000-0xfe401fff irq 16 at device 10.0 on pci0 > ahd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] > ahd1: at device 10.1 on pci0 > device_attach: ahd1 attach returned 12 > da0 at ahd0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > > And it's an Asus a7v880 board. > > The only strange thing I see in here is the "attach returned 12". In the > handbook it says to try adding "hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1", > but it looks like this was taken out in 5.3 > > Anything else to try?...Any more info needed?.... Am I missing the video card you have? That would be a fairly important bit of info. :) Also, do you already have Xorg or XFree86 running? What does 'Xorg -configure' say the card is? - run that as root and it will create xorg.conf.new in /root. That will give an idea what the card claims to be. Lou -- Louis LeBlanc FreeBSD@keyslapper.org Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. -- John Kenneth Galbraith