nvidia

[Karl Larsen]

Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> 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
>
>   
    Gads, I thought that was what the kernel does. Why must I tell it to 
save RAM? Part of the Nvidia software is a kernel package which might 
take care of this. At least I do not have any kernel stuff like that in 
my grub.conf.



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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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