[LinuxBIOS] GA-M57SLI - Nvidia X Server

john selmys at lotuspond.ca
Wed Jul 25 20:28:22 CEST 2007


yhlu wrote:
> 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
I added pci=routeirq (and get same NVIDIA errors) but am completely 
ignorant about updating mptable.c.

John
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