On 12-Feb-2001 Joseph Markham wrote:
> Dear Friends,
> 
> LM 7.2 insists in telling me that my video card is a G200 4Mb, when I
> know it is a G200 8Mb SDRAM. I've run Drakconf countless times to
> change the configuration but to no avail. Any ideas?


Same here. You'll also note that the bus type listed is PCI ... so much
for detection. I did a dmesg after installing and all 8 megs were
detected. Also if you look at /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (or appplicable file)
you'll see a section like:

-------
# **********************************************************************
# Graphics device section
# **********************************************************************

Section "Device"
    Identifier "Generic VGA"
    Driver     "vga"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Matrox Millennium G200 4MB"
    VendorName  "Unknown"
    BoardName   "Unknown"
    Driver      "mga"
    VideoRam    8192
    # Clock lines
-----------

So X knows the real video ram, and the available resolutions/depths
definitely correspond with 8 Megs. It must be a bug in whatever reads the
identifier. I wouldn't worry about it though. Your system is most
probably using all your video ram.

dave.



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