Nvidia driver

[Roger Heflin]

Per Anton Rønning wrote:
> Claude Jones wrote:
>> On Tue August 26 2008 10:52:21 am Roger Heflin wrote:
>>  
>>> Don't count on that, the 4GB thing is a very very rough and
>>> often wrong *SIMPLE* rule.
>>>
>>> Just because a machine has under 4GB of ram does not mean that
>>> the PAE kernel won't give you more memory.    The bios *CAN*
>>> (some do, some don't) remap something that is covered by a
>>> video card, or otherwise reserved for something to above 4GB
>>> requiring a PAE kernel to use it.   And this can start
>>> happening at around 3GB of ram or more, the only way to know
>>> if PAE is correct for a given setup is to either know exactly
>>> what the bios is doing or to test it.
>>>
>>> It all depends on exactly what the bios is doing, he would
>>> need to boot a PAE and a non-PAE kernel and check how much
>>> memory is being seen by each, if they are the same or really
>>> close (within 100MB) I would avoid the PAE kernel.
>>>     
>>
>> Interesting... I'll make this a keeper and test soon. I build most of 
>> my machines with 4GB of ram now, but that's in Windows land at work - 
>> they tend to filter my way as older ones are superceded or retired - 
>> my current Linux machines all top out at 3GB
>>
>>   
> I'm am afraid that it is beyond my qualifications to start kernel 
> management. First I must
> know the difference between these kernels, hwich I dont.  It seems that 
> I need to take a course
> in advanced Linux to embark upon a venture like that,.
> So for now I'd better be happy with the two optional screen resolutions 
> that I have,
> and the 800x600 is not bad at all, I can live vith that without someone 
> holding a gun to my head.
> 
> Now, I happened to find
> 
> ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/1.0-8174/README/64bit_html/index.html 
> 
> 
> 
>  NVIDIA Accelerated Linux Driver Set README and Installation Guide
> 
> 
>      *googlig for the nvidia-xconfig.      *
> 
> *It is a lot of stuff here that I have to spend some time on, and 
> hopefully I will be
> better equipped to handle this.
> 
> Brgds
> PAR
> 
> *
> *
> 
> *
> 
Per,

Boot both the PAE kernel and the non-PAE kernel (through the grub screen), boot 
each and do a "cat /proc/meminfo" and check MemTotal, if they are about the same 
use the non-PAE kernel as the PAE kernel won't help you.

 From your list these 2:
kernel-PAE-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686
kernel-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686

                               Roger