Comment 25 for bug 661248

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Alfred Homan (alfredhoman) wrote : Re: Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT doesn't work with nvidia-current 260

This is not only System76 issue, it's GTS 250, 9800 GT, 9800 GTX, 8600M, 9200M and probably a lot more.
There's atleast 15 ppl only on the launchpad.

Quotes:

"I am having the Exact same issue with my MSI GTS250"
"I have GeForce 8600m GT on Acer ASPIRE 5920G laptop and have the identical problem" - 2 with 5920g
"I'm getting the exact same symptoms (...), but I'm on a GeForce GTS 250"
"Asus M2N-68 motherboard and a generic 9800GT, all of which worked fine in Lucid"
"a similar Problem with my Dell Studio XPS 1340. (...) The 9400m works fine, but the 9200m is not working"

Nvidia site:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=2335295
"nvidia.ko says my GTS 250 is not supported on 260.19.xx"
"This is not an Nvidia issue, but a regression in the Linux kernel. The Ubuntu bug tacking this issue is:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/661394"

First time I faced this problem on 32-bit 10.10 (2.6.35), the only solution was kernel <= 2.6.32.
A few days ago I've tried an absolutely fresh installation of 11.04 x86_64.
No X server neither on default drivers nor latest nvidia drivers.
Had to roll back to 2.6.32 as well.

My system is AsRock N86PV-GS + Athlon 64 X2 + 9800 GTX
On any kernel >2.6.32 dmesg says: probe of 0000:02:00.0 failed with error -1

[ 9.563941] NVRM: The NVIDIA GPU 0000:02:00.0 (PCI ID: 10de:0614) installed
[ 9.563942] NVRM: in this system is not supported by the 270.41.06 NVIDIA Linux
[ 9.563943] NVRM: graphics driver release. Please see 'Appendix A -
[ 9.563944] NVRM: Supported NVIDIA GPU Products' in this release's README,
[ 9.563945] NVRM: available on the Linux graphics driver download page at
[ 9.563945] NVRM: www.nvidia.com.
[ 9.563951] nvidia 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
[ 9.563975] nvidia: probe of 0000:02:00.0 failed with error -1
[ 9.564690] NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine failed for 1 device(s).
[ 9.564692] NVRM: None of the NVIDIA graphics adapters were initialized!

dmiInfo attached