2.6.38 Nvidia Problems : NVRM: The system BIOS may have misconfigured your GPU.

2.6.38 Nvidia Problems : NVRM: The system BIOS may have misconfigured your GPU.

[Venkatram Tummala]

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.
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2.6.38 Nvidia Problems : NVRM: The system BIOS may have misconfigured your GPU.

[mindentropy]

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?

2.6.38 Nvidia Problems : NVRM: The system BIOS may have misconfigured your GPU.

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:37:58AM -0700, Venkatram Tummala wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to run 2.6.38(x86_64) with nvidia 7200GS video card with 4GB of
> RAM.

Then please contact nvidia, they are the only ones that can support
their closed-source kernel driver.

best of luck,

greg k-h

2.6.38 Nvidia Problems : NVRM: The system BIOS may have misconfigured your GPU.

[mindentropy]

On Monday 25 Apr 2011 11:06:08 pm Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:37:58AM -0700, Venkatram Tummala wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am trying to run 2.6.38(x86_64) with nvidia 7200GS video card with 4GB
> > of RAM.
> 
> Then please contact nvidia, they are the only ones that can support
> their closed-source kernel driver.
> 
> best of luck,
> 
> greg k-h
> 

Greg,
Just out of curiosity could I rule out the BIOS by saying that the kernel can 
remap the addresses if its wrong?

2.6.38 Nvidia Problems : NVRM: The system BIOS may have misconfigured your GPU.

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 01:27:30AM +0530, mindentropy wrote:
> On Monday 25 Apr 2011 11:06:08 pm Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:37:58AM -0700, Venkatram Tummala wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I am trying to run 2.6.38(x86_64) with nvidia 7200GS video card with 4GB
> > > of RAM.
> > 
> > Then please contact nvidia, they are the only ones that can support
> > their closed-source kernel driver.
> > 
> > best of luck,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> > 
> 
> Greg,
> Just out of curiosity could I rule out the BIOS by saying that the kernel can 
> remap the addresses if its wrong?

No.