nVidia Computer

Tue Apr 15 10:19:49 UTC 2008

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 1:13 AM, Owen Townend <owen.townend at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On 15/04/2008, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >     Thanks for your comments Leonard! I only wish my computer would work
> > as well as yours with the "nv" driver. It is pretty good but not good
> > enough for me.
> >
> >     I just from Newegg bought a new motherboard  which is a Gigibyte
> > GA-MA78GM-S2H AM2 AMD 780G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard.  It has a 30
> > day return for refund.
> >
> >     It will fit in my small enclosure and my older DVD and HD's should
> > all work. My RAM and AMD CPU should fit. It has ZERO nVidia hardware :-)
> >
> >
> > Karl
>
>
> Hey,
>   I have always had a good run with nvidia hardware and had never owned
> anything ati until last weekend when I bought the same motherboard as you.
>   The Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H is a great board so far, but definately
> has had its quirks for me. To install Gutsy you need the alternate disk,
> but
> none of the supplied kernels were apparently installable.
>   This meant I had to use a livecd (I used a hardy desktop beta) to chroot
>
> into a kernel-less system, install a newer kernel and then update
> initramfs
> and grub.
>   The alternative was to install Hardy but as this is to be a mythtv
> box and the Mythbuntu 8.04 beta did not prove to be stable enough I
> eventually went for the former. I haven't yet been able to get radeon,
> radeonhd or gfglx running under 2.6.22-14 but I am still hopeful[1].
> BTW gfglx worked perfectly under Hardy[2]. The onboard video is an HD3200
>
> Good luck,
> cheers,
> Owen
>
> [1] My RocketRaid rr1740 drivers won't compile past 2.6.22 as some
> functions
> have been deprecated, they haven't updated the driver and I haven't yet
> looked to see if I can patch it myself.
>
> [2] add Option "TexturedVideo" "on" to the Device section in xorg.conf
>   Without it xvinfo shows no devices.
>
> --
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> >         Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
> >         Linux User
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I have an Asus M2N32 *WS* Professional that I have run Ubuntu Feisty,
Sabayon, Gentoo and currently Ubuntu Studio 7.10.  I pretty much have had
only the Firefox problems that
Leonard has had. I had a real good experience with Sabayon which is Gentoo
portage based and is fast. I didn´t care for the Gnome layout though. It
felt to much like KDE. However everything worked including Compiz-Fusion.
Before you dump this motherboard give it a try. I am using Ubuntu Studio
without Compiz-Fusion working right now. Here is the output of my lspci:

bob at java:~/TNT$ sudo lspci
[sudo] password for bob:
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)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:08.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:09.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:09.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SMBus (rev a2)
00:09.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:0a.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP55 USB Controller (rev a1)
00:0a.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP55 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:0c.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 IDE (rev a1)
00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:0d.1 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:0d.2 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI bridge (rev a2)
00:0e.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP55 High Definition Audio (rev
a2)
00:10.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a2)
00:11.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a2)
00:12.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:14.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:15.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:16.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:17.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM
Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7600 GS]
(rev a1)
02:0b.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000
Controller (PHY/Link)
03:00.0 PCI bridge: NEC Corporation uPD720400 PCI Express - PCI/PCI-X Bridge
(rev 06)
03:00.1 PCI bridge: NEC Corporation uPD720400 PCI Express - PCI/PCI-X Bridge
(rev 06)
08:00.0 SATA controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE614x SATA II
PCI-E controller (rev 01)

Hope this helps in some way.
Bob
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