nVidia Computer

[Karl Larsen]

        I have computer about 6 month's old that I must replace because 
it uses a lot of nVidia hardware. Here is the output from lspci filtered 
for just the nVidia hardware shown.

karl at karl-desktop:~$ sudo lspci
[sudo] password for karl:
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)
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        Of course the one that is critical is at 00:50.0 and is a 
"GeForce 6100 VGA controller".

        Since I got this computer I have used Fedora and now Ubuntu 
Linux computers and quite a number of so-called nVidia Linux drivers. 
The one thing that has been the same on all these Linux systems has been 
a more or less frequent full computer failure at ANY TIME. This has got 
to stop. I use this computer for business and it seems to fail while 
writing a business letter at a time with maximum work loss. I have NEVER 
been able to recover from this crash. It is known by a cross hatch 
pattern on the screen, and failure of both the mouse and keyboard. The 
only way out is a hard power-down. Thank god for ext3 :-)

        My question to you all right now, those of you that have a 
successful nVidia computer that never crashes.

1. Did you ever have crashes?
2. From lspci what video controller do you have?
3. Which nVidia driver are you using? There are two main ones. Ubuntu 
comes with the "nv" and there are 2 other high efficiency drivers.
4. Do you have as many nVidia hardware devices as I have?
5. Any advice on how to save this nVidia computer?

Karl



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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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