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Tue May 8 20:58:51 2007 UTC (17 years, 4 months ago) by niro
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Tue May 8 20:58:51 2007 UTC (17 years, 4 months ago) by niro
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1 | niro | 167 | --- xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ati/radeon_driver.c.radeon-disable-VideoRAM-option 2003-09-05 16:26:31.000000000 -0400 |
2 | +++ xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ati/radeon_driver.c 2003-09-05 16:33:40.000000000 -0400 | ||
3 | @@ -2144,12 +2144,25 @@ | ||
4 | info->ram = &RADEONRAM[offset]; | ||
5 | |||
6 | if (dev->videoRam) { | ||
7 | + /* The radeon driver is known to properly autodetect the amount of | ||
8 | + * video memory on all known Radeon and FireGL video adaptors at this | ||
9 | + * time. All of the bug reports that come into Red Hat in which the | ||
10 | + * user has overridden the autodetected video RAM amount by using the | ||
11 | + * VideoRAM option in their config file, turn out to be that the user | ||
12 | + * thought their video card had more RAM than it does in reality. As | ||
13 | + * such, this option is not useful for the Radeon driver, and is only | ||
14 | + * a burden on tech support load and increases end user problems, so | ||
15 | + * I am disabling it permanently in Red Hat radeon driver builds from | ||
16 | + * now on. - Mike A. Harris <mharris@redhat.com> | ||
17 | + */ | ||
18 | xf86DrvMsg(pScrn->scrnIndex, X_INFO, | ||
19 | - "Video RAM override, using %d kB instead of %d kB\n", | ||
20 | + "VideoRAM override ignored, this driver autodetects RAM\n", | ||
21 | dev->videoRam, | ||
22 | pScrn->videoRam); | ||
23 | +#if 0 | ||
24 | from = X_CONFIG; | ||
25 | pScrn->videoRam = dev->videoRam; | ||
26 | +#endif | ||
27 | } | ||
28 | pScrn->videoRam &= ~1023; | ||
29 | info->FbMapSize = pScrn->videoRam * 1024; |