On Monday 25 Apr 2011 1:07:58 pm Venkatram Tummala wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to run 2.6.38(x86_64) with nvidia 7200GS video card with 4GB of > RAM. Although the kernel boots up, i just get a blank screen. I can ssh > into the system. dmesg shows the following output : > > [ 11.535703] NVRM: This PCI I/O region assigned to your NVIDIA device is > invalid: > [ 11.535704] NVRM: BAR1 is 0M @ 0x0 (PCI:0000:01:00.0) > [ 11.535706] NVRM: The system BIOS may have misconfigured your GPU. > [ 11.535710] nvidia: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -1 > [ 11.535728] NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine failed for 1 device(s). > [ 11.535730] NVRM: None of the NVIDIA graphics adapters were initialized! > [ 11.706755] vesafb: cannot reserve video memory at 0xa0000000 > [ 11.706761] vesafb: abort, cannot ioremap video memory 0x500000 @ > 0xa0000000 > [ 11.706764] Trying to free nonexistent resource > <00000000a0000000-00000000a04fffff> > [ 11.706768] vesafb: probe of vesafb.0 failed with error -5 > > It seems lots of people had the same issues with some older kernels ( > 2.6.27) and this apparently happens only with 4GB of RAM with nvidia. > Anything less than 4GB of RAM is not a problem. > > Has anyone figured this out yet. Interesting. You might need to update your BIOS. Does it work properly with lesser RAM? Is it a custom built PC? Who is the BIOS manufacturer? _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
