Hi,

When configuring a kernel, for example Character devices -> ... I can
configure my graphic card, say "ATI chipset" or "NVidia chipset". I realise
I don't understand very well what "chipset" means. I consulted webopedia
and some others, but the offered definitions there aren't very helpful
either.

How would you define "chipset"?

Thanks,

Niki Kovacs
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On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:50:18 +0200, Niki Kovacs <mickey@mouse.com> wrote:
>
> How would you define "chipset"?

By Manufacturer and purpose, or vice-versa. Or by linux support,
most 'bad', Intel getting better (AHCI support, e100 support, ACPI
support) nForce bad, reverse engineered drivers. nVidia borderline,
at least their 'shim' is open source, less intrusive.

By function? Second thing after CPU, what chipset on mobo? Then
you get northbridge --> memory + PCI, southbridge --> I/O, hard
drives, etc. And northbridge moving into CPU's with enormous pin
counts (eg. >750) On a related note, how do you define the length
of a piece of string? o_O

--Grant.

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:50:18 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote:

> When configuring a kernel, for example Character devices -> ... I can
> configure my graphic card, say "ATI chipset" or "NVidia chipset". I realise
> I don't understand very well what "chipset" means. I consulted webopedia
> and some others, but the offered definitions there aren't very helpful
> either.
>
> How would you define "chipset"?

A company like ATI will make graphics cards. They also sell the chips to
other companies, who make other cards using ATI chips, and put their own
names on them.
So when you're configuring your graphics driver, you don't care about the
manufacturer's name on the card you bought: you only card about who made
the graphics chip.

John

john wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:50:18 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote:
>
>
>>When configuring a kernel, for example Character devices -> ... I can
>>configure my graphic card, say "ATI chipset" or "NVidia chipset". I realise
>>I don't understand very well what "chipset" means. I consulted webopedia
>>and some others, but the offered definitions there aren't very helpful
>>either.
>>
>>How would you define "chipset"?
>
>
> A company like ATI will make graphics cards. They also sell the chips to
> other companies, who make other cards using ATI chips, and put their own
> names on them.
> So when you're configuring your graphics driver, you don't care about the
> manufacturer's name on the card you bought: you only card about who made
> the graphics chip.
>
> John
>
>

Most of the time you can read the name of the company that made the chip
by looking at your graphics card (or any other card/board). Its usually
the biggest chip(s) on the board.

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:46:50 -0700, Miguel De Anda <sodamnmad@linuxmail.org> wrote:
>
> Most of the time you can read the name of the company that made the chip
> by looking at your graphics card (or any other card/board). Its usually
> the biggest chip(s) on the board.

Or lspci, lspci -v, saves pulling labels/heatsinks off chips ),
and opening up a laptop is such a pain, well, not so much opening
the laptop, the trick is getting it closed again, and, as a bonus,
having it work afterwards.

--Grant.

Grant Coady wrote:

> Or lspci, lspci -v, saves pulling labels/heatsinks off chips ),
> and opening up a laptop is such a pain, well, not so much opening
> the laptop, the trick is getting it closed again, and, as a bonus,
> having it work afterwards.

LOL. I know that. Old Compaq laptop went into the trash like that, after I
tried to "repair" it.

N.
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