Difficult to determine package -could the driver itself (nouveau or proprietary) -could be false information given by the kernel to the driver...
seems to have similarities with https://h-node.org/videocards/view/fr/379/NVIDIA-Corporation-NV44A--GeForce-6200----rev-a1- detected as 512Mo by sysinfo lspci verbose give 03:09.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV44A [GeForce 6200] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 40 (1250ns min, 250ns max) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21 Region 0: Memory at 94000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Region 1: Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=512M] Region 2: Memory at 92000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] [virtual] Expansion ROM at e0000000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Kernel driver in use: nouveau in /usr/share/misc/pci.ids.gz timestamp 2015 group is 0221 NV44A [GeForce 6200] 1043 81e1 N6200/TD/256M/A 3842 a341 256A8N341DX attempted (to limit video card memory use) in /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section "NVIDIA Corporation NV44A [GeForce 6200] (rev a1)" Driver "nouveau" Busid "03:09.0" VideoRam 262144 EndSection has not worked made several others attempts, none worked Not able to determine if the reason is incorrect syntax (explanations are hardly available) or not Actually, i think that one possibility is : card memory range is 512Mo (de C0000000 à DFFFFFFF = 512Mo) , but only 256mb populated Regards -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1737423 Title: 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 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1737423/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
