NVIDIA driver fails to load, freebsd 7.0

[mc_i2020]

Hi,
I'm trying to get the nvidia drivers working but it fails with the following error.

nvidia0: <GeForce 8400M GS> on vgapci0
vgapci0: child nvidia0 requested pci_enable_busmaster
vgapci0: child nvidia0 requested pci_enable_io
nvidia0: NVRM: NVIDIA MEM resource alloc failed, BAR 1 @ 0x14
nvidia0: NVRM: NVIDIA hardware alloc failed
device_attach: nvidia0 attach returned 6

My operating system is freebsd 7.0 and this is the Dell Vostro 1400 laptop.

Can someone please help me out?

Thanks,
Mani chandra

[Weaseal]

Is this the driver via ports? Which version?

[mc_i2020]

yes, it is...the version number is 173.14.09

[graudeejs]

what options did you picked when installed driver?

[mc_i2020]

Only the option for the support for linux compatibility.

[graudeejs]

do you have linux compability enabled in /etc/rc.conf?
also did you do what port said to do after it finished?

[mc_i2020]

yes I do have linux compatibility and the port installed successfully. A look at my error in nvidia's README says the following:-

Q. X fails to start, and during bootup time I get the following error message:

nvidia0: NVRM: NVIDIA MEM resource alloc failed.

A. On certain FreeBSD kernels, it may be necessary to add the following line to '/boot/loader.conf':

hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range="1"

This should allow the NVIDIA kernel module to attach.

but that option does not even exist in freebsd 7.0

Death-Star awaits your command>sudo sysctl hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range="1"
Password:
sysctl: unknown oid 'hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range'

[graudeejs]

hmmm, what are your PC's specifications?

[mc_i2020]

Intel core2 duo T9300, 2.5 GHz
4 gb RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS
Freebsd 7.0 i386

[edhunter]

I had problems with similar configuration.
The solution for me was to physically remove 2gigs of ram.

[mc_i2020]

What!?!?...is there no other way?!

[graudeejs]

Well, for start you could try to really remove RAM (personally i doubt it'll help, but, hey we live in imperfect world)

I got 2GB ram, no problem

[DrJ]

Originally Posted by mc_i2020

What!?!?...is there no other way?!

I reported this to nVidia in December of last year.

The only way to get the nVidia driver working with more than 3GB RAM is to disable memory remapping in BIOS. A few motherboards have it, most don't. If yours does not, then you can reduce the amount of memory you use, or use your existing memory and the "nv" driver. Be aware that the "nv" driver does not have hardware acceleration, and it does not support multiple monitors (at least it did not when I checked most recently).

[mc_i2020]

Hey thanks for reporting the problem.
Infact I am using the "nv" driver. The only problem is that i cannot watch videos properly cause of the lack of the xv extension. If I can resolve that then I really have no need for the "nvidia" driver. Check out the below

Death-Star awaits your command>xvinfo
X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
no adaptors present

[graudeejs]

Try compiling kernel with and without PAE, maybe that will help , nvidia driver(that's blind geess)

[mc_i2020]

NVIDIA's drivers do not support PAE enabled kernels. This was given in the README.
Is there any way that I can watch movies without lag on the "nv" driver? My card is the NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS.

[chill]

Originally Posted by mc_i2020

Is there any way that I can watch movies without lag on the "nv" driver? My card is the NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS.

Render your video using SDL in mplayer.

You can specify your video output driver like

$ mplayer -vo sdl

[mc_i2020]

I still seem to have that lag

[robbak]

What, do you mean that the audio trails the video, or vice versa?

That is pretty normal, and is usually a result of audio buffering, video processing delays, or incorrect allowances made for either of them.

Use + and - to adjust audio delay until it is perfect(ish!), and then put that value in mplayer's config file.

edit: sometimes frame-rate mismatches cause audio to drift out once it is set, and often a video file will have its audio out of sync. The solution is to fix the video file: often mencoder can do that, but it takes some manual reading and expeimentation.