Nvidia driver

[Per Anton Rønning]

Roger Heflin wrote:
> 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 work - they tend to filter my way as older ones are superceded or 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
>>
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> 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
>
And I must also admit that I have not done anything in particular to  
influence which
kernels I have installed.
I have only installed F9 from a DVD attached in the August issue of 
Linux Format,
and I am over all very pleased with the distro. It works fine, and the 
trouble I have had
is peanuts compared to the upside.

There were no questions as to the choice of kernels during the 
installation as far as I can remember, and had it been, I would not have 
known what to answer,  kernel stuff is the next level for me.
I would very much like to learn about this, i really like Linux
and there is a lot that I would like to master.
But I have a lot of other tasks so I cannot allocate enough time, it seems.

Brgds
PAR