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[ILUG] X only seeing 1mb mem on a 4mb vid card

[ILUG] X only seeing 1mb mem on a 4mb vid card

Niall O Broin niall at linux.ie
Fri Jun 21 15:28:14 IST 2002


On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 03:12:10PM +0100, Kevin O' Riordan wrote:

> 	(==) ATI(1): Chipset:  "ati".
> 	(**) ATI(1): Depth 16, (--) framebuffer bpp 16
> 	(II) ATI(1): VESA BIOS detected
> 	(II) ATI(1): VESA VBE Version 2.0
> =>	(II) ATI(1): VESA VBE Total Mem: 1024 kB
> 	(II) ATI(1): VESA VBE OEM: ATI MACH64

Clutching at straws here, but the mention of VESA & framebuffer makes me
think that perhaps you're using a VESA framebuffer driver here and that the
card is reporting the wrong amount of memory via the VESA Bios - it's an ATI
card, dubious software is to be expected.



Niall




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