nvidia driver install-unable to read seeprom

[Louis LeBlanc]

On 11/18/04 10:42 PM, Stephen L. Martin sat at the `puter and typed:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to install the nvidia-driver (1.0.6113_2) on 5.3-RELEASE.
> The installation fails and locks the computer, what looks like, right at
> the end. This is what happens:
> 
> Install -o root -g wheel -m 555 nvidia.ko /boot/modules
> kldxref /boot/modules
> ===> lib
> ===> lib/GL
> ===> lib/libnvidia-tls
> ===> lib/libGLcore
> ===> lib/libXvMCNVIDIA
> ===> lib/compat
> ===> lib/compat/libGL
> ===> lib/compat/libnvidia-tls
> ===> lib/compat/libGLcore
> ===> x11
> ===> x11/driver
> ===> x11/extension
> ===> etc
> ===> doc
> ahd1: <Adaptec 39320 Ultra320 SCSI adapter> mem 0-0x1fff at device 10.1
> on pci0 Unable to read SEEPROM
> 
> At this point the whole machine is locked...can't even ping it...and
> this happens every time I try the install. Everything else runs
> fine...only this install is causing problems.
> 
> Here's some relevant dmesg output:
> 
> da0 at ahd0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da0: <MAXTOR ATLAS10K4_36SCA DFL0> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
> da0: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz, offset 127, 16bit), Tagged
> Queueing Enabled
> da0: 35074MB (71833096 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4471C)
> ahd0: <Adaptec 39320 Ultra320 SCSI adapter> port
> 0xed00-0xedff,0xe000-0xe0ff mem
>  0xfe400000-0xfe401fff irq 16 at device 10.0 on pci0
> ahd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> ahd1: <Adaptec 39320 Ultra320 SCSI adapter> at device 10.1 on pci0
> device_attach: ahd1 attach returned 12
> da0 at ahd0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> 
> And it's an Asus a7v880 board.
> 
> The only strange thing I see in here is the "attach returned 12". In the
> handbook it says to try adding "hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1",
> but it looks like this was taken out in 5.3
> 
> Anything else to try?...Any more info needed?....

Am I missing the video card you have?  That would be a fairly
important bit of info. :)

Also, do you already have Xorg or XFree86 running?
What does 'Xorg -configure' say the card is? - run that as root and it
will create xorg.conf.new in /root.  That will give an idea what the
card claims to be.

Lou
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