From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: venkatram867@gmail.com (Venkatram Tummala) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:37:58 -0700 Subject: 2.6.38 Nvidia Problems : NVRM: The system BIOS may have misconfigured your GPU. Message-ID: To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/attachments/20110425/ae1da8ec/attachment.html