nvidia driver install-unable to read seeprom

[Stephen L. Martin]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 11:33:10PM -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> 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.

Whoops...so I did...it's a Nvidia MX440-SE Dual Head AGP card. I do have
Xorg and KDE both working fine...I need the nvidia driver for the dual
monitor support.

Also, I've found something else that causes the problem...when I try and
do a "kldload snd_driver" the same symptoms happen (except a new mem
address):

ahd1: <Adaptec 39320 Ultra320 SCSI adapter mem 0-0x1fff at device 10.1
on pci0 Unable to read SEEPROM

My first guess is it looks like some resource problem?...since it occurs
when I load hardware modules. So I shut down, and removed my pci
firewire card and disabled my on-board nic and sound in the bios. Upon
reboot I received a message: "Kernel trap 12 with interrupts disabled".
It is now frozen and I have to do a hard shut down. When I re-add them
to the system it boots up fine???.... I've rinsed and repeated several
times with the same results.... 

Per the ahd(4) manual page, I've also compiled in the debugging code,
but I haven't seen any debugging info yet....

Thanks.

   -Stephen