p23
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Joined: 01 Feb 2005
Posts: 4
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 Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:12 am Post subject: Disabled Video Memory |
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Hello All,
I decided that it would be fun to install a second graphics card into my system and try to get a third monitor going. However, it has become far more of a challenge than I thought and I have run into a wall. I have things set up to the point where I can start the X Server (Xorg 6.8.2), but only if I am using xdm. Attempts to use KDE hang when loading, as do attempts to exit xdm once it has started. So I have some here in search of some information.
lspci -v reports (for the "new" card [an old PCI Radeon board]):
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01:08.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R100 QD [Radeon 7200] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon 7000/Radeon
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 7
Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [disabled] [size=128M]
I/O ports at a000 [disabled] [size=256]
Memory at df000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=512K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at de080000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
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Mostly, I am curious about the meaning of that [disabled] tag after the listing of the video card memory. I have been able to find references to other lspci outputs that have the same thing, but no one seems to mention what it really means. I am sort of leaning towards the idea that there is some sort of resource conflict, but I am quite curious about the memory. So if anyone out there knows why lspci might be listing the memory as disabled, or, more importantly, if it actually matters that it is disabled when queried by lspci, I would greatly appreciate hearing about it. |
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