You'll have to ask NVidia about it, there's no way to debug it on this
end.
-Eric
On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 11:22, Glenn Meuth wrote:
> Greetings all,
> I found that I only had this problem when I built the virtual frame
> buffer support into the
> kernel. I don't know if that helps, but after removing the virtual frame
> buffer module (for the
> console), I did not have any problems with the driver.
>
> Glenn
> vortarian@xxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> atici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> I wonder whether anyone had the same problem with me. I have a GeForce 3
> video card and it works perfectly on a usual 7.2 system with the binaries
> provided in nvidia.com. However now I'm using a customised kernel (since
> I'd like to use XFS), therefore I got the SRPMs, rebuilt and installed
> them. The previous version had slight problems whereas 1.0.1541 simply
> doesn't work at all. I have no idea how it might clash with XFS resources
> or XFS capable kernel but I'd appreciate if someone could shed some light.
>
> When I observe the XFree86.0.log I see the drivers loaded perfectly and
> GeForce 3 is recognised at PCI 1:5:0 but then I get the following
> problem...
>
> The final lines in XFree86.0.log is:
> -----
> (==) NVIDIA(0): Write-combining range (0xf0000000,0x4000000)
> (WW) NVIDIA(0): Failed to allocate a DMA push buffer using AGP memory...
> (WW) NVIDIA(0): attempting to use PCI memory
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to allocate a DMA push buffer context
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to allocate DMA push buffer
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
> -----
>
> I reported the problem to Nvidia but they didn't even respond.
> I don't think they care much about linux. Yet if you had the same
> problem or have an idea on the cause let me know.
> Alp
>
> BTW I think XFS is great and I appreciate your efforts. Looking forward
> to see the 1.1.0 release...
>
>
>
>
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Eric Sandeen XFS for Linux http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
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