From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 20 10:01:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EED1516A4CE for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:01:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from 194-185-53-242.f5.ngi.it (194-185-53-242.f5.ngi.it [194.185.53.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E681A43D2D for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:01:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mark@remotelab.org) Received: from vaio.lab (localhost. [127.0.0.1])i6KA1GgW082897; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 12:01:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mark@remotelab.org) Received: from vaio.lab (localhost.lab [127.0.0.1]) by vaio.lab (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i6KA0diB000832; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 12:00:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mark@vaio.lab) Received: (from mark@localhost) by vaio.lab (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i6KA0d2Z000831; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 12:00:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 12:00:39 +0200 From: Marco Trentini To: George Mitchell Message-ID: <20040720100039.GA614@vaio.lab> References: <20040719182812.GG636@vaio.lab> <200407192330.i6JNUiNN059410@m5p.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200407192330.i6JNUiNN059410@m5p.com> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD vaio.lab 5.2.1-RELEASE-p8 i386 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: george+freebsd@m5p.com cc: mark@remotelab.org cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nForce3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:01:20 -0000 On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 04:30:44PM -0700, George Mitchell wrote: > > For AGP problem you could try AGP gart included in the > > nvidia-driver port in place of FreeBSD AGP gart. > > This turns out to be a step backwards. After recompiling my kernel > without "device agp" and booting with "nvidia_load="YES"", I get > these messages from the boot process: > > nivida0: Unable to allocate NVIDIA memory resource. > device_probe_and_attach: nvidia0 attach returned 6 > nvidia0: at device 1.0 on pci0 > nvidia0: Unable to allocate NVIDIA register resource. > device_probe_and_attach: nvidia0 attach returned 6 > nvidia0: at device 10.0 on pci0 > nvidia0: Unable to allocate NVIDIA register resource. > device_probe_and_attach: nvidia0 attach returned 6 > nvidia0: at device 11.0 on pci0 > nvidia0: Unable to allocate NVIDIA register resource. > device_probe_and_attach: nvidia0 attach returned 6 > I've noted this question in the nvidia-driver port FAQ: Q: X fails to start, and during bootup time I get error messages like the following: nvidia0: Unable to allocate NVIDIA register resource. or: nvidia0: Unable to allocate interrupt resource. A: The system bios has not properly setup your graphics card; FreeBSD can't currently setup PCI devices that the BIOS leaves unconfigured. Please uncheck "PNP-OS" in your system bios. Try it. -- Marco Trentini mark@remotelab.org http://www.remotelab.org/