4349 fails to initialize

[ScottW]

I tried the latest drivers and installer to upgrade my working 3123 version and get the attached error with -verbose 9. Config file is also attached. Kernel is 2.4.20, gcc is 3.2.2 glibc is 2.2.5, distro was originally Slackware 8. There is nothing in /var/log/* with NVRM. devices entries are present in /dev/nvidia?. cat /proc/driver/nvidia/cards/0 gives:

Model: GeForce2 MX 100/200
IRQ: 11
Video BIOS: ??.??.??.??.??
Card Type: AGP

which looks ok, apart from the ?s.

I can insmod the driver with no errors.

Any ideas what could be wrong?

The attached file is just a tar of the 2 X11 files.
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Scott

[bwkaz]

You need to have "PnP Aware OS" turned off in your BIOS, and you need to have "Assign IRQ to VGA" (or Assign IRQ to PCI VGA; those are the same setting) turned on. Are these settings set that way?

Can you post a tail -n 350 of your kernel logs (/var/log/messages on RH and Mandrake; I'm not sure where Slack puts them) after you try to startx?

[ScottW]

Its an Award BIOS v6.00 on a GA 7DX M/board with an Athlon XP 2000+. The bios doesn't appear to have settings similar to what you describe. I can disable auto (ESCD) PnP resource configuration and manually assign interrupts, but the manual says thats for legacy IDE devices.

I've also included in the tar lspci -vv which seems to indicate that the NVIDIA card is sharing an interrupt with the ethernet controller (which is in use). This sounds bad to me, but I'm not an expert.

I've attached the tails for messages, syslog, and debug in a tar file.

[Kiamu]

hmm,

build the drivers from source ?

[ScottW]

The install script tells me that binaries are not available for my system, it then attempts to try ftp, but with no luck, so it then builds from source itself.

[ScottW]

Here is the installer log in case that helps with my "Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel modules!" problem.

[ScottW]

Don't know why I didn't spot this before but when I run startx it dmesg reports:

0: NVRM: rm_init_adapter failed

complete dmesg is attached.


What does this mean??

[Kiamu]

hmm,

don't know if it is connected to your error msg, but i cannot spot the init of the agp before.

it is just a guess: load the agp module before or compile it in

[ScottW]

I didn't have AGP compiled in the kernel to try to eliminate that as a problem. I rebuilt the kernel with AGP as a module and the problem is the same:

0: NVRM: rm_init_adapter failed

An updated dmesg is attached