On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 02:22:31PM +0100, Ross Lynch mentioned:
> Um, I've a Matrox Mystique here which I'm told is an 8 meg. When I stick
> it into my machine however, it comes up as 2 meg in Windows. Could it be
> that my motherboard is foo with regard to the card, or is it more likely
> that the card simply is 2 meg. I havn't had a chance to probe the card
> under Linux, but even if it does show up as 8 meg there, it isn't really
> much good to me if it's not going to work properwise under Windows too.
> Is there a way of fooling Windows into believing it's 8 (supposing it
> really _is_ 8)?
Nope. The drivers ask what memory is on the card, unless you explicitly
tell it what it has. What could have happened is that the windows drivers
are wrong. You could do worse than download more recent ones from Matrox's
website.
I have to say, I didn't know that Mystiques were made in 8MB versions.
Anyway, XF86 should tell you, when you get around to it.
Kate
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