RmInitAdapter failed using Nvidia 190.40 with a GeForce 210

pembo13 · 12-27-09, 04:20 PM

card: PNY Technologies GeForce 210 512MB DDR2 PCIe 2.0 x16 Graphics Card
condition: brand new from store
what works: text mode, vesa
what doesn't work: nouveau, nvidia
apparent problem: driver cannot initialize card
connection: PCIe to board, VGA to LCD
distribution: Fedora 12 (i386)

Just as an FYI, I only have about 5 days to get this working, if I can't, I need to return it to the store and get another, or at least verify that it works completely in Windows. I am willing to work with anyone interested to get it working however.

**AaronP** · 12-27-09, 04:33 PM

Quote:

vmap allocation for size 16781312 failed: use vmalloc=<size> to increase size.
NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0xffffffff:1119)
NVRM: rm_init_adapter(0) failed

Your kernel is running out of vmalloc space. Please see the section in the README that describes this kernel problem and how to resolve it.

pembo13 · 12-27-09, 06:30 PM

Thank you, I don't know how comes I had missed that error message.

For anyone who finds this later, the solution was adding

vmalloc=192MB

to my kernel parameters in GRUB

12-27-09, 06:30 PM	#3
pembo13 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 2	Re: RmInitAdapter failed using Nvidia 190.40 with a GeForce 210 Thank you, I don't know how comes I had missed that error message. For anyone who finds this later, the solution was adding vmalloc=192MB to my kernel parameters in GRUB