On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 07:35, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, +13:27:56 EET (UTC +0200), > Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pressed some keys: > > > On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 09:45, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: > > > > I tried this setting in my Xfree86: > > > > Section "Device" > > > Identifier "Matrox Millennium II" > > > Driver "mga" > > > ChipSet "mga2164w" > > > VideoRam 16384 > > > My bet is that the card doesn't actually have that much video RAM. > > That VideoRam setting is normally on. I did not put that line for the > sake of debugging. I am helluva sure, that I have 16 megs of RAM in > video card, because I have bought such memory upgrade card. In addition > I have read TFM that came with my video card. > > > The > > driver takes your word for it though, causing weird effects. Don't > > override it and let the driver do its job. > > I tried that, too. Driver said, it could not find memory because of > hardware bug so it settled on some really low default value.
Whoops, I didn't know about these oddities of older Matrox cards... > Do you think my memory upgrade card is b0rken? Or do you think contact > pins of that memory upgrade card has become oxidized? No idea, maybe the driver can't deal with it correctly. What happens if you have it use 8 megs, e.g.? You may want to bring this up with XFree86. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
