On Thu, 2008-12-25 at 16:52 -0800, Ben Vlug wrote: > Forgive me if this is an "old" issue but it is frustrating me to no > end. I am not "great" with linux but usually can get done what I need > to. > > I am running MythDora 5 with an NVidia card. I have 350 and 150 > Happauge cards in it. > > I wanted to put the 1600 in it but have found that as soon as I > install the CX18 drivers from this site that NVidia pukes and won't > load XServer. > > I have googled to no end so I am now asking for help here. > > Any help is appreciated.
Please provide the segment of /var/log/messages from bootup to failure. Also provide the output of $ cat /proc/meminfo $ cat /proc/interrupts I suspect you'll have to add a 'vmalloc=nnnM' kernel commandline option that is about 128 MB greater than the VmallocTotal reported by /proc/meminfo. The cx18 wants a single, contiguous 64 MB chunk of vmalloc addresses for PCI IO mappings (not real system memory) and I suspect the Nvidia graphics driver also wants a large contiguous chunk of vmalloc addresses for PCI/AGP graphics IO mappings. Between the two, I suspect you're running out of large chunks of vmalloc addresses. Another old problem that could be the case is that the nvidia graphics card and cx18 are sharing an interrupt. There was a problem that came up in the past with the VIA(? maybe it was NVidia?) linux DRM (direct rendering manager) driver stimulating interrupts but not claiming them. The kernel shuts off the "offending" interrupt in this case. Let's see what your logs say... Regards, Andy > Thanks! > > Ben _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
