Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 65498
nVidia TNT2 card is not probed correctly
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:42:45 EDT
Description of Problem: When running Xconfigurator, my TNT2 card with 32MB is incorrectly detected as an nVidia Vanta with 1MB. The card was, however, detected correctly by the installer. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Xconfigurator-4.10.7-1 kernel-2.4.18-4 How Reproducible: always Additional Information: This may be a kernel issue. /proc/pci output is: Bus 1, device 0, function 0: VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Vanta [NV6] (rev 21). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfd000000 [0xfdffffff]. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf2000000 [0xf3ffffff].
oops, meant to select 7.3.
You also meant to select XConfigurator I assume
No, actually I meant to select kernel. Note how the device is misidentified in the /proc/pci output as well. I assumed Xconfigurator used that as part of its probing.
That doesn't make a lot of sense. Both anaconda and Xconfigurator both use the exact same database, so I'm not sure how this could occur. At any rate, it most certainly has absolutely nothing to do with the kernel. Is this a clean install of RHL 7.3? Please attach the output of "lspci -n"
Created attachment 58707 [details] lspci -n output
Yes, it was a clean install. Any chance this would have changed between kernel 2.4.18-3 (which was used during the install) and 2.4.18-4 (which I updated to)?
No. As I said already, the kernel has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with this. Every PCI device has a Vendor and device ID built into it. That ID is queryable via PCI config space. The config tools query PCI config space to find out what devices are video devices (Class 300), and then take the vendor ID, and the device ID, look it up in the pcitable (a file on your harddisk), and if that ID is found, the entry for that piece of hardware lists a device driver to use, as well as the vendor name and the device name. The kernel has no part of this. Changing the kernel will have zero effect. Your video card is: 01:00.0 Class 0300: 10de:002d (rev 15) Which is: 0x10de 0x002d "Card:RIVA TNT2" "nVidia Corporation|RIVA TNT2 Model 64" If you do an "lspci" you should see the correct output. The above entry was taken from rawhide hwdata package. Closing as working in rawhide. If you still have the problem with the Red Hat "limbo" beta, feel free to open a new report against the new config tool 'redhat-config-xfree86' Thanks.