From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 7 02:12:37 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A489416A4CE for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 02:12:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccmmhc92.asp.att.net (sccmmhc92.asp.att.net [204.127.203.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4065443D45 for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 02:12:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from [10.0.0.4] (12-216-244-56.client.mchsi.com[12.216.244.56]) by sccmmhc92.asp.att.net (sccmmhc92) with ESMTP id <20050407021236m9200gdq5de>; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 02:12:36 +0000 Message-ID: <42549715.9070402@math.missouri.edu> Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 21:12:37 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050328 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Problems with PCI-express video card X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 02:12:37 -0000 I have a nvidia PCI-express 6600 video card on an Intel SE7525GP2 motherboard. I am running a fairly recent version of RELENG_5. I am having great difficulty getting the video card to work. On an older version of Xorg it would try to use the vesa driver. It did put up some video, but it was illegible. The most recent version of Xorg tries to use the nv driver. I have also tried out the very recent nvidia driver that just came out on the nvidia website a few days ago. In these cases startx simply doesn't work, and I get the error messages: (EE) NVIDIA(0): No valid FB address in PCI config space I might add that when the nvidia.ko is loading, it puts out messages like this: pci3: on pcib3 nvidia0: mem 0xdd000000-0xddffffff,0xf0000000-0xffffffff,0xd80000 00-0xdbffffff at device 0.0 on pci3 nvidia0: NVRM: NVIDIA MEM resource alloc failed. nvidia0: NVRM: NVIDIA driver alloc failed. device_attach: nvidia0 attach returned 6 I have tried also messing with the AGP settings to no avail, but I guess that is irrelevant anyway (is AGP totally unrelated to PCI-express?) I don't know if this is a video card issue, or a motherboard issue, or what. It works beautifully with Windows XP. I might try it out with Linux also, but I haven't got that far yet. Thanks, Stephen