[LinuxBIOS] GA-M57SLI - Nvidia X Server

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Wed Jul 25 15:11:37 CEST 2007


* john <selmys at lotuspond.ca> [070725 03:52]:
> Hello,
> 
>     I managed to boot LinuxBIOS on my M57sli MB but without X. I'm using 
> the Nvidia proprietary driver. Here's the error message:
> 
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA kernel module does not appear to be receiving
> (EE) NVIDIA(0):     interrupts generated by the NVIDIA graphics device
> (EE) NVIDIA(0):     PCI:7:0:0.  Please see Chapter 8: Common Problems in the
> (EE) NVIDIA(0):     README for additional information.
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device!
> 
>     Should I be using the free driver? My card is BFS8600GTS. Anybody 
> have suggestions?

It looks interrupts are not set up correctly.

I think implementing ACPI for this board would be the best solution to
fix this.

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