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From:	Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia GeForce 6200 questions
Date:	Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:55:53
Message-Id:	`5bdc1c8b1003011455y25a75ce0u16142cde2ca85b0f@mail.gmail.com`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] nvidia GeForce 6200 questions by Mark Knecht

1	On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
2	> Hi,
3	> I've been trying to get an nvidia controller working today and not
4	> having much luck. It's complaining about failing to load kernel
5	> module.
6	<SNIP>
7
8	SOLVED:
9
10	Mar 1 14:36:49 dragonfly kernel: NVRM: This PCI I/O region assigned
11	to your NVIDIA device is invalid:
12	Mar 1 14:36:49 dragonfly kernel: NVRM: BAR1 is 0M @ 0x0 (PCI:0001:00.0)
13	Mar 1 14:36:49 dragonfly kernel: NVRM: The system BIOS may have
14	misconfigured your GPU.
15	Mar 1 14:36:49 dragonfly kernel: nvidia: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed
16	with error -1
17	Mar 1 14:36:49 dragonfly kernel: NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine
18	failed for 1 device(s).
19	Mar 1 14:36:49 dragonfly kernel: NVRM: None of the NVIDIA graphics
20	adapters were initialized!
21
22
23	And indeed it was a BIOS setting.
24
25	Fixed and working now.
26
27	Sorry for the noise,
28	Mark