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hail108
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 Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2003 12:11 am Post subject: Multiple Nvidia card problems (IRQ Problem?) |
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I have a dual Pentium III 850 (440BX Tyan Tiger 100), 768M Ram with three geforce 4 Nvidia cards. I've installed Gentoo, X, gnome, etc and I am having trouble getting the two PCI NVIDIA cards to work properly. I'm posting this in the hardware area because it appears to be an IRQ/Resource allocation problem. I can get all three video cards to work properly as long as the PCI cards are using X's "nv" driver. As soon as I switch over to the "nvidia" driver for one or both of the pci cards X produces the error, failed to load nvidia module. (if I try all three cards set to nvidia the system tends to lock up requiring a hard reboot) I've tried both the emerge nvidia-kernel/glx and downloading directly from nvidia.com. Both have the same result.
Yes I am loading the module in to the kernel, dmesg gives me:
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nvidia: Can't find an IRQ for your NVIDIA card!
nvidia: Please check your BIOS settings.
nvidia: [Plug & Play OS ] should be set to NO
nvidia: [Assign IRQ to VGA] should be set to YES
nvidia: Can't find an IRQ for your NVIDIA card!
nvidia: Please check your BIOS settings.
nvidia: [Plug & Play OS ] should be set to NO
nvidia: [Assign IRQ to VGA] should be set to YES
nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVdriver Kernel Module 1.0-3123 Tue Aug 27 15:56:48 PDT 2002
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I can successfully use my AGP card in X with the nvidia driver, notice that it complains twice above and not three times.
lspci -vvx outputs (I've only posted the text on the vid cards):
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00:11.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 420] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0 (1250ns min, 250ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 0
Region 0: Memory at 30000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Region 1: Memory at 34000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Region 2: Memory at 31000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=512K]
Expansion ROM at fffe0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
00: de 10 72 01 06 00 b0 02 a3 00 00 03 00 00 00 00
10: 00 00 00 30 08 00 00 34 08 00 00 31 00 00 00 00
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
30: 00 00 fe ff 60 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 05 01
00:13.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 420] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0 (1250ns min, 250ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 0
Region 0: Memory at 32000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Region 1: Memory at 38000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Region 2: Memory at 31080000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=512K]
Expansion ROM at fffe0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
00: de 10 72 01 06 00 b0 02 a3 00 00 03 00 00 00 00
10: 00 00 00 32 08 00 00 38 08 00 08 31 00 00 00 00
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
30: 00 00 fe ff 60 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 05 01
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti 4200 AGP 8x] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 64 (1250ns min, 250ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
Region 0: Memory at f9000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Region 1: Memory at cc000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Expansion ROM at faae0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Capabilities: [44] AGP version 3.0
Status: RQ=31 SBA+ 64bit- FW+ Rate=x1,x2,x4
Command: RQ=0 SBA- AGP- 64bit- FW- Rate=<none>
00: de 10 81 02 07 00 b0 02 a1 00 00 03 00 40 00 00
10: 00 00 00 f9 08 00 00 cc 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
30: 00 00 ae fa 60 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 01 05 01
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It appears that both PCI cards are not being assigned IRQs. (from what I've read 0 and 255 are used when an open IRQ is not available.) I've tried everything I can think of to get these IRQs assigned:
- Enabled/Disabled PNP OS in BIOS
- Enabled/Disabled Assign IRQ to VGA (assuming this is doing it only for the primary AGP card.)
- I've recompiled the kernel with ACPI on/off, APM on/off
- A few other things as well, mainly out of desperation and are not worth posting 
I would have given up a while ago assuming I'm asking too much of this system but I have succesfully configured Win 2000 to run all three fully accelerated. (Quake III at 3072x768 is quite interesting).
I appearently don't know enough about resource allocation with Gentoo/Linux to get this thing figured out. Any help is greatly appreciated.
-hail108 |
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Dragon561
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| Try using the NVdriver instead, that is the only was I got my PCI Nvidia card to work. |
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