"PCI: Cannot Allocate resource ... " when adding graphic card

[James Kosin]

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Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:

|Hello,
|I have a machine with NVIDIA GE Force FX 5500 on AGP slot that works
just
|fine. I have a PCI Matrox Millenium II card lying around, and so I
tried to
|put it in so that I can have a dual-head display. After I put in the
Matrox
|card to the available PCI slot, when booting I got the message:
|
|"PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 1 of device ... "
|
|When I try to startx, the machine would hang and won't even respond to
|CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot. system-config-display won't work either. I
believe
|this is because of the PCI message above.
|
|Any suggestion as to what cause this, and how to fix it ? Is it
possible to
|have a dual-head display with AGP Nvidia card and PCI Matrox card ?
I've done
|something similar with an onboard trident card, and a matrox PCI card
before
|and it works just fine.
|
|Any help is appreaciated. Thank you
|
|Reuben D. Budiardja
|
Reuben,

Sorry, just a few questions for you....

How much memory do you have in your system?
Which card is your BIOS set up to initialize and use as the primary
display?  (usually PCI or AGP are the options)

Sorry again,
James
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