Re: Via Epia 5000 Video RAM

[Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net>]

Andreas Janssen wrote:
> Hello
>
> Tom Allison (<tallison@tacocat.net>) wrote:
>
>
> > I'm trying to install XFree86 and it's asking about video ram.
> >
> > I don't know how much ram to specify.  The online docs I can find say
> > it uses system RAM.
>
>
> Did you try to leave the setting alone? In many cases you do not need to
> enter the amount of video RAM, because XFree is able to decect it
> automatically. If you want or need to select the size manually, maybe
> you should take a look at your BIOS, or at this page:
> <http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/viaedenepia5000/index.html>
>
> best regards
>         Andreas Janssen

Cool!
Left it blank and it kind of worked.  At least it recovered for me.

There was a time where you _had_ to provide the amount of RAM for your 
video card.

Under 2.6, how do I configure my mouse?
/dev/input/mice isn't it.

Never mind.  mdetect -v -x did the trick.
I'm staring at my first login screen under the sarge-installer + 
kernel-image 2.6 on my toy.

This is awesome!!!!!  I'm so geeked.