Nvidia driver

[Per Anton Rønning]

Claude Jones wrote:
> On Tue August 26 2008 10:52:21 am Roger Heflin wrote:
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>> 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 superceded or retired - my current Linux machines all top out at 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. 
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*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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