Hi all,
(My first time in seeking assistance via the CentOS mailing list ... Not
sure if I should be submitting this as a possible kernel bug).
I've successfully installed Cent OS 5.1 (kernel: 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5) on
an Optiplex 755 (EM64T). However I'm not able to get a NVIDIA Gigabyte
8600GT (PCI-e) card to work with the system despite successfully
installing the latest NVIDIA drivers
(NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.07-pkg2.run).
I've tested the same configuration in Windows with no difficulties.
I suspect the kernel is not able to allocate the appropriate hardware
resources possibly resulting in the card failing to fire up properly:
Some diagnostics:
A snippet of the Xorg log file:
# more /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -E 'WW|EE'
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) ****INVALID MEM ALLOCATION**** b: 0x13a000000 e: 0x13affffff
correcting
(EE) Cannot find a replacement memory range
(WW) ****INVALID MEM ALLOCATION**** b: 0x138000000 e: 0x139ffffff
correcting
(WW) ****INVALID IO ALLOCATION**** b: 0x13800dc80 e: 0x13800dcff
correcting
(EE) end of block range 0xffffffff < begin 0x138000000
(EE) Cannot find a replacement memory range
(EE) NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA GPU at PCI:1:0:0 is not supported by the
169.09
(EE) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA driver.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device!
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
# dmesg | grep Cannot
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 8 of bridge 0000:00:01.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 8 of bridge 0000:00:1c.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 1 of device 0000:00:03.3
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:00:19.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 1 of device 0000:00:19.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:00:1a.7
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:00:1b.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:00:1f.3
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:01:00.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 3 of device 0000:01:00.0
# lsmod | grep nvidia
nvidia 8885796 0
i2c_core 56129 3 i2c_ec,nvidia,i2c_i801
# lspci -v | grep -E
'00:01.0|00:1c.0|00:03.3|00:19.0|00:1a.7|00:1b.0|00:1f.3|01:00.0'
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express PCI Express Root
Port (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
00:03.3 Serial controller: Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express Serial KT
Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 02 [16550])
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566DM-2 Gigabit Network
Connection (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI
Controller #2 (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio
Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express
Port 1 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller
(rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600 GT
(rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Is it likely that I need to try an older kernel or attempt to patch the
current one ?
Any suggestions are appreciated,
John
