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