From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 20 20:16:45 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 BEE7F16A4CE for ; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 20:16:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mx.networkiv.net (mx.networkiv.net [65.205.143.171]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E0E443D2D for ; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 20:16:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stephen@networkiv.net) Received: by mx.networkiv.net (Postfix, from userid 6891) id 237DEB28DD; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 15:16:47 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 15:16:47 -0500 From: "Stephen L. Martin" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20041120201647.GA14436@mx.networkiv.net> References: <20041119034238.GA99245@mx.networkiv.net> <20041119043310.GA14003@keyslapper.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041119043310.GA14003@keyslapper.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Mutt-References: <20041119043310.GA14003@keyslapper.org> X-Mutt-Fcc: =sent/ X-Mutt-Fcc: =sent/ X-Mutt-Fcc: =sent/ Subject: Re: nvidia driver install-unable to read seeprom X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 20:16:45 -0000 On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 11:33:10PM -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > 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. Whoops...so I did...it's a Nvidia MX440-SE Dual Head AGP card. I do have Xorg and KDE both working fine...I need the nvidia driver for the dual monitor support. Also, I've found something else that causes the problem...when I try and do a "kldload snd_driver" the same symptoms happen (except a new mem address): ahd1: