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I have a few Millennium's and Milliennium II's I hoarded, if anyone needs info from them, just let me know. I'd be glad to contribute to the project in a small way if I can help.
Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
|On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Mike A. Harris wrote: | |>If people (both other developers and end users) who _require_ |>the VideoRAM option in order for the proper amount of video |>memory to be useable with their card, could send me privately |>their: "lspci -vvn" or alternatively "scanpci" output (if lspci |>isn't available to them), that would help me assess how feasible |>this would be to do. | | |The Millennium II cannot be probed; MGACountRam() claims it is a |hardware bug. As far as I know this function correctly detects the |cases it can't handle, and I don't have an accessible card to provide |lspci output. | |>My end-goal here, is to determine which hardware truely requires |>the VideoRAM option, and limit the usage of that option in our |>own XFree86 packages to those specific drivers and cards to limit |>the amount of bogus incoming bug reports and end user problems |>created by unnecessary overconfiguration. I might also add |>another option to re-enable VideoRAM override if people see cases |>where autodetection does work, but want to override it anyway, |>such as a global "AllowVideoRAMOverride" setting. ie: user has |>card with bad videoram, but by limiting videoram to a lower |>amount they can disable the bad area of memory. | | |Would it be good enough to make the probed value override any |larger amount specified by the user ? |I'm not sure whether breaking the convention that user config |overrides probed values is a good idea or not here. |
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