> Do you know what physical memory the card has without looking at
> xfree86?  ViRGE cards can be 2M or 4M.  You might try specifying 2M and

I googled a little and found that it's likely to be a 2M card. The card
is Formac GA6 (Formac Pro Media 20 Plus), it contains 4 RAM chips and 4
places for additional chips. The chips are labeled V53C16258HK40. On
Formac Pro Media 40 Plus there are 8 such RAM chips and total 4M of RAM.

Some more Googling and now it's sure - there are 4 chips of (256Kx16) so
2M total.

I tried the card in x86 to see if the RAM size is detected right there
but I had little success. First the PC didn't like F-COde ROM so the
card could not be used as the primary card. Running atimach64 as primary
and s3virge as secondary didn't work either - both wanted to decode VGA
addresses and some chars appeared on screen but some in the video ram of
the other card. Finally it booted up using s3virge dx as primary and
this (effectively biosless) s3virge as secondary. But I have big trouble
running X - I configured XF 4.2.1 for this card but it tends to hang on
DDC, Accel etc. I couldn't squeeze the guessed videoram size out of it
so I don't know whether X detects the right videoram size on x86.

> see if that resolves this issue. Of course you will only be able to run
> modes that fit in 2M, but that will fix the possibility of pixmap cache

Will try in the evening (GMT+0200 here). How am I suppsed to force
videoram size - no option for that? OK, will just hardcode it and see.

-- 
Meelis Roos ([EMAIL PROTECTED])



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