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@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@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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