0: NVRM: rm_init_adapter failed

[Pyroman[FO]]

I was previously using a successful Xinerama setup with two PCI TNT cards, with a Pentium III and i810 chipset, and the "nv" driver. This is on RH 8.0 with the updated kernel. So I install the Nvidia kernel module using srpm and the i386 GLX driver. It compiles and installs just fine, and the kernel module loads just fine. When I start X, one screen comes up fine, however the second screen fails with this in the XF86 error log

(**) NVIDIA(1): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(==) NVIDIA(1): RGB weight 888
(==) NVIDIA(1): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) NVIDIA(1): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(--) NVIDIA(1): Linear framebuffer at 0xF9000000
(--) NVIDIA(1): MMIO registers at 0xFD000000
(EE) NVIDIA(1): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module!
(EE) NVIDIA(1): *** Aborting ***

This also shows up in dmesg

0: NVRM: rm_init_adapter failed

If I switch the second card back to the "nv" driver it works. Ive attached my XFconfig and XF error log. BTW, in the XFconfig file, Card2 is the disabled onboard i810.

[Pyroman[FO]]

Also, removing the module "glx" doesn't work, I tried that. I got it to work on Debian that way before, but it doesn't work this time.

[bwkaz]

Did you use the TwinView info to do this? AFAIK, TwinView won't work quite right for this kind of thing.

I don't know what will, though...

Are you sure the BusID lines are set correctly?

According to that log file, you're still loading "dri" as well. Are you sure that's right?

[Pyroman[FO]]

Im not using TwinView, just good old fasioned Xinerama. Also, I dont see any mention of dri in the current log file, so Ill upload that one. It looks the same from what I can tell, however, except for the dri bit.

[bwkaz]

Yeah, it does. Hmm...

Did you see the post by exodist in this thread?

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7191

It seems that there are problems with certain TNT2 cards and Xinerama, maybe it's worth a question there?

[Pyroman[FO]]

Thanks for the thread, that helped some. However, I had this exact same hardware working in Xinerama with the Nvidia accelerated drivers under Debian. So It can't be the hardware.

[bwkaz]

Oh yeah. Rats.

I'm fresh out of ideas... switching the BusIDs around might work, but probably not.

It almost sounds like one of the kernel module or the X driver doesn't like driving two cards, but I don't know what to do about that to make it work...