With a (cheap) video card in PCI Geforce 6200 (NV44A) with 256Mb video memory misdetected as 512 Mb : result was kernel panic in worst case and memory crash in best case (work correctly under XP = it is not an hardware problem) Xorg.0.log contains P

Asked by Jean COLIN

Under XP
card detected as
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0221&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_A1\4&3A321F38&0&48F0

PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0221&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_A1\4&3A321F38&0&48F0

PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0221&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_A1
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0221&CC_030000

memory range 94000000 94FFFFFF
memory range C0000000 DFFFFFFF
memory range 92000000 92FFFFFF
IRQ 09
IO range 03B0 03BB
IO range 03C0 03DF
memory range 000A0000 000BFFFF

Processeur graphique : GeForce 6200
Version du pilote : 307.83
Prise en charge DirectX : 9.0c
Horloge principale : 300 MHz
Débit de données mémoire : 1064 MHz
Interface de mémoire : 64 bits
Mémoire : 256 Mo
Type de mémoire : DDR2
Version BIOS vidéo : 5.44.A2.10.26
IRQ : 9
Bus : PCI

correctly detected as 256Mb and working

Under linux
file /var/log/Xorg.0.log
contains 18.759] (--) PCI: (0:3:9:0) 10de:0221:0000:0000 rev 161, Mem @ 0x94000000/16777216, 0xc0000000/536870912, 0x92000000/16777216, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072
card bad detection ... 0xc0000000/536870912 correct adress, wrong size 536870912 soit 512Mo

Regards

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#1

What is the output of:

sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; uname -a

Thanks

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Jean COLIN (carl174) said :
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Hello

Computer in secondary home, will be able to do that in around two week.

Sorry for delay - regards and thanks

Jean COLIN

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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No problem. The question can stay inactive for 15 days before it expires.

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Jean COLIN (carl174) said :
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Hello

The output is

jean@jean-Soisy:~$ sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; uname -a
[sudo] password for jean:
  *-display
       description: Display controller
       produit: 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller
       fabriquant: Intel Corporation
       identifiant matériel: 2
       information bus: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 02
       bits: 32 bits
       horloge: 33MHz
       fonctionnalités: pm bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       ressources: irq:16 mémoire:a0000000-a7ffffff mémoire:90000000-9007ffff portE/S:1800(taille=8)
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       produit: NV44A [GeForce 6200]
       fabriquant: NVIDIA Corporation
       identifiant matériel: 9
       information bus: pci@0000:03:09.0
       version: a1
       bits: 32 bits
       horloge: 66MHz
       fonctionnalités: pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nouveau latency=40 maxlatency=1 mingnt=5
       ressources: irq:21 mémoire:94000000-94ffffff mémoire:c0000000-dfffffff mémoire:92000000-92ffffff mémoire:e0000000-e001ffff
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:    Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
Release:    14.04
Codename:    trusty
Linux jean-Soisy 3.13.0-135-generic #184-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 18 11:56:31 UTC 2017 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

Regrds

Jean COLIN

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said :
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This question was expired because it remained in the 'Open' state without activity for the last 15 days.

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Jean COLIN (carl174) said :
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Hello

The problem still exists... was not solved by this time-out

Regards

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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said :
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I suggest that you create a bug report.

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Jean COLIN (carl174) said :
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Created Bug #1737423

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1737423

The solution of the problem is transferred to the solution of the bug.

Following the rules established by shadoko professor, this problem is solved by creating another

Regards and thank you

Jean COLIN

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Jean COLIN (carl174) said :
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Thanks Manfred Hampl, that solved my question.