On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Henrik Frisk <frisk.h@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> I'm curious to see how long I can run this system now before it fails again... >> > That didn't take so long :( > > In Xorg.0.log it says, after all modules have been loaded, "Failed to > initilalize the NVIDIA graphics device PCI:2:0:0" > > In /var/log/messages I find: "kernel: nvidia: probe of 000:00:03.5 > failed with error -1" > Searching for the error I came across the nvidia README [1] which, under chapter 9 "Known Issues", in the section "Kernel virtual address space exhaustion on the X86 platform" describes the error I'm experiencing. The solution is to pass vmalloc=192MB (or 256MB) to the kernel boot options. If i get the time tomorrow I will try it and report if it works. [1] http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/169.12/README/chapter-09.html /h -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
