Meelis Roos wrote: > > > > 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.
Some options that are general to all drivers are only documented in 'man XF86Config' not 'man s3virge'. You should find that 'videoram 2048' works for the s3virge driver in the Device section. -- Kevin _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
