Re: Video RAM detection for X
On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 14:54, Steven Tomcavage wrote:
> I am having trouble getting my PowerMac 6360 to run X on
> Woody with anything greater than 8 bit color depth. This
> was fine when I was setting up the system, but now it is
> limiting. I am using an 800x600 display. I have the Mac
> side of the machine displaying 16 bit color at 800x600, so
> I know it works on the hardware.
>
> When I look through the X log, it doesn't look like the
> correct amount of video RAM is being detected. The machine
> has 1 MB of video RAM. I tried setting VideoRam to 1024 in
> the Display section of my XF86Config-4 file, but that
> doesn't seem to have any effect. Here's the line that makes
> me question the video RAM situation:
>
> (II) FBDev(0): Hardware: valkyrie (vidmem: 468k)
The fbdev driver trusts the framebuffer device about the amount of video
RAM, I don't think it could map more anyway.
If you're running OFfb (check in /proc/fb), you can't use any other
resolution than what you boot into with that. You'll have to use
valkyriefb.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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