[CentOS] Allocaation resource error (DELL Optiplex 755)...

Sat Mar 1 02:04:39 UTC 2008

Hi Michel,

Thanks for the tip. You were spot on. I updated the BIOS to A08 and it
works fine now.

Much appreciated,

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Michel van Deventer
> Sent: Friday, 29 February 2008 8:28 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Allocaation resource error (DELL 
> Optiplex 755)...
> 
> Hi,  
> 
> I had EXACTLY the same problem, running Fedora 8 (64-bit) on 
> a Optiplex 755
> with 4Gb and a 8600GT. You should update you DELL bios to rev 
> A07 (released
> about a month ago) then it works. There's a know bug in bios 
> A04 and lower.
> 
>    Regards,
> 
>    Michel van Deventer
> 
> On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:05:47 +1100, John.Giovannis wrote
> > 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
> > 
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