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    Strange 8400GT

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by akkadian, May 8, 2008.

  1. akkadian

    akkadian Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey guys i have a vaio fz21e with an 8400GT with supposly 64MB VRAM but when i run lspci -vvv it shows me this:

    01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G86M [GeForce 8400M GT] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
    Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 9005
    Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
    Latency: 0
    Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
    Region 0: Memory at ce000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
    Region 1: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
    Region 3: Memory at cc000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
    Region 5: I/O ports at 2000
    Capabilities: <access denied>



    So if anyone with linux or simply a livecd with the same card but with 256MB vram could run the script and post here i appreciate. I do not have sure but my theory is that all the FZ come with the same configuration but sony block the video memory through the BIOS, but linux does not read from the bios but directly from the hardware.

    If someone could help me check this i appreciate.
    Thanks
     
    akkadian, May 8, 2008
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  2. Xirurg

    Xirurg ORLY???

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    new FZ models have 256mb(as i know)
     
    Xirurg, May 8, 2008
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  3. akkadian

    akkadian Notebook Enthusiast

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    Well mine is like 8 months older, but the fz21M has 256 of vram. I am trying to find a way to check how many video ram i have.
     
    akkadian, May 8, 2008
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  4. ScuderiaConchiglia

    ScuderiaConchiglia NBR Vaio Team Curmudgeon

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    I have a FZ190 from July of last year and it has 256 meg of vram.

    Gary
     
    ScuderiaConchiglia, May 8, 2008
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  5. akkadian

    akkadian Notebook Enthusiast

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    but in windows? can you check in linux?
     
    akkadian, May 8, 2008
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  6. ScuderiaConchiglia

    ScuderiaConchiglia NBR Vaio Team Curmudgeon

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    Please quote the original message when you reply. We have no idea which of us you are addressing.

    If it was me, then no I can't.

    Gary
     
    ScuderiaConchiglia, May 8, 2008
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  7. akkadian

    akkadian Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ok sorry.

    regards
     
    akkadian, May 8, 2008
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