Re: memory of video card

[Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net>]

The problem seems to be more with my mouse.
But X is kind of hard to work with right now.
Ctrl+Alt+<backspace> doesn't kill X and Ctrl+Alt+F1 doesn't switch to a 
console terminal.

So I have to hack it from an ssh session for now.

Apperently the transistion from kernel 2.4 to 2.6 has a lot more issues 
that I was led to believe.  I can't even file a bug report on this 
because the machine is so unusable right now.

My guess is that right now with the changes in 2.6.x kernel, I've lost 
all my input devices and have to somehow start over again with that. 
Unfortunately it would have been a lot easier to do this from a terminal 
session.

A warning would have been nice.  But now I'm left with something one 
notch up from non-bootable.

Greg Madden wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 March 2004 05:23 pm, Tom Allison wrote:
>
> > I ran into an interesting problem.
> >
> > I upgraded to kernel 2.6.3 and the xfree86 doesn't work.
> >
> > No problem, thought I would just re-run the dpkg-reconfigure script
> > and run through it again.
> >
> > Problem is, I can't remember how much RAM in on the video card.
> > Checked 'lspci -vv' and it doesn't come back with anything
> > decipherable
> >
> > I tried 16MB and it's locked up.
> > Suggestions?
> >
> > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1
> > (rev 6a) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> >         Subsystem: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1
> >         Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
> > ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> >         Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
> >
> > >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> >
> >         Latency: 32
> >         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
> >         Region 0: Memory at e9800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
> > [size=8M] Region 1: Memory at ea000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
> > [size=128K] Region 2: Memory at e9000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
> > [size=8M] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K]
> > Capabilities: <available only to root>
>
>
> I'll be interested to see if it matters. During the configuration of the 
> xserver I alway s skip right on by the bus ID  & memory items. AFAIKT 
> it hasn't made a difference. Maybe I am missing out on some 
> performance ? 
> --
> Greg Madden
> Debian GNU/Linux