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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