Hi , strange this , I had eaxctly the same problem with a SIS
8Megs card, put a Navidia 32 Meg card in and found it first time, and all 32
M...perhaps there are more cards this is occurring with ?
regards
73 de richard g8jvm
-----Original Message-----
From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on behalf
of "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 12 February 2001 06:52
To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: [expert] Matrox G200 configuration in LM7.2
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.
