nvidia

[Carroll Grigsby]

On Sunday 28 October 2007 12:28:56 pm Karl Larsen wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 12:00 -0400, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> >> According to the Soyo site, your motherboard has an onboard Prosavage
> >> graphics chip (http://www.soyousa.com/products/proddesc.php?t=d&id=292),
> >> and uses a VIA chipset. Nothing there about nVidia, so I assume that the
> >> nVidia card is an add-on.
> >
> > /sbin/lspci probably will tell.
> >
> > Ralf
>
>     Thanks Ralf, you are right again. Here is a whole list of nvidia
> hardware:
>
> [root at k5di ~]# lspci
> 00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
> 00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
> 00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
> 00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
> 00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
> 00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
> 00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
> 00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
> 00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
> 00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
> 00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51G [GeForce
> 6100] (rev a2)
> 00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
> 00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3)
> 00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3)
> 00:0a.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a3)
> 00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
> 00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
> 00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev a1)
> 00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller
> (rev a1)
> 00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
> 00:10.2 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 AC97 Audio
> Controller (rev a2)
> 00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
> 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
> HyperTransport Technology Configuration
> 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
> Address Map
> 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
> DRAM Controller
> 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
> Miscellaneous Control
> [root at k5di ~]#
>
>     And the video controller is a nVidia Corporation C51G [GeForce 6100]
> (rev a2) what ever that might mean. Also the entire computer is full of
> nvidia things and the only one causing trouble is the video.

Karl:
First, whatever Soyo board that you have, it certainly isn't the model number 
that you cited above.

Second, unlike video cards, onboard chips _usually_ rely on system RAM rather 
than onboard RAM. If that is the case here, you have to reserve some memory 
space for the use of the chip by using a mem=XXXX command at boot time. (xxxx 
is the difference between the installed RAM and that required by the video 
card). I've never dealt with one of these onboard critters, so I'll leave it 
to you to determine the exact form of the mem command. In particular, be 
careful about expressing the amount of memory -- I'm not certain whether it's 
in kilobytes, megabyte or whatever.

-- cmg