Bob Palowoda wrote: > John Martin wrote: >> Bob Palowoda wrote: >>> Just curious if any one else is running into this. I have a couple >>> of ECS dual core Athlon motherboards (VIA based) with 7600gs/gtx >>> pci-e cards. I noticed booting build 102 I get a hard hang when the >>> kernel is loading. kdb indicate the hard hang is right >>> when it loads the gfx_private module. I take the video card out and >>> it boots fine with >>> the vga onboard card. Now was there some changes that happened to >>> this build >>> that would involve the pci-e bus nexus layer in combination with the >>> nvidia pci-e card? >> Try disabling MSIs in /kernel/drv/nvidia.conf (uncomment the last >> line in the file). >> This is the default starting in b103 until known MSI interrupt >> delivery issues >> are fixed. (However, none so far have been reported on VIA chipsets). >> >> >> > Disabling the MSI interrupt was one of the first things I tried. > Unfortunate it did not work. > I failed to mention that during a normal boot from the dvd it will > reset the machine when > it loads that driver. I did noticed it only affected ECS motherboards > K8M890x which are > common these days. The nforce chipset did not show this failure > mode. Will wait to see > if anybody else hits this. Did this motherboard work with an earlier build? If so, does it work in b102 with the NVDAgraphics+NVDAgraphicsr packages from b99?
The code in the nvidia driver that uses the vgatext module hasn't changed in over a year, but I suspect the vgatext module load is just resolving a dependency for the driver.
