h/w and s/w remap of 4 GB

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Date: 25 Sep 2005 15:04:22 -0700

I installed Fedora Core 4 in text mode on x86-64 architecture with
nForce 4 chipset and the dredded Geforce 6x00 (6200 is mine) line of
video cards. As expected the nv and nvidia drivers didn't work for the
graphics card. nvidia gave a black screen that locked up the PC and nv
gave black/white horizontal lines for the lower 3/4 of the screen and
colored noise for the upper 1/4. I noticed on boot an error message
"PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 9 of device 00:0e.0". I'm going
to assume this is the PCI Express video card. So I disabled the H/W
and S/W remap over 4 GB options in the BIOS and like magic the nv
driver works. I haven't gotten arround to checking the nvidia driver.
I wouldn't mind leaving it like this except that drops my available
memory from 4GB to 3GB. Any solutions? Kernel is 2.6.11-1.1364 (I
think, the default FC 4 kernel). I tried upgrading the bios (ASUS A8N-E
mobo bios rev 1005) to the latest revision 1008, but dumps a bunch of
garbage (almost like a stack trace) the last of which has SELinux in it
and freezes the system. I can't run rescue because I get the same
garbage.

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