[LinuxBIOS] GA-M57SLI - Nvidia X Server

yhlu yinghailu at gmail.com
Wed Jul 25 17:37:20 CEST 2007


On 7/25/07, Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de> wrote:
> * 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.
>

i don't think so.

try pci=routeirq then update mptable.c

YH




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