Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 12:17:27 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: opal@zoomfinance.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vesa modes with asus tnt2 m64 Message-ID: <200012052017.eB5KHRF00825@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Dec 2000 20:50:01 %2B0800." <00120520500100.54677@opal.cyber.mmu.edu.my>
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> Hi,
> I have asus tnt2 m64 graphics card and using vesa mode. The card 32MB
> memory but in dmesg, vesa only detects 4MB. Why is this so?
Your BIOS is lame and only reports 4MB of video memory. It's possible
that it does this to avoid confusing some lame software elsewhere that
breaks if it finds > 4MB.
No, really, FreeBSD's designers have decided that nobody will ever need
more than 4MB of video memory, and we have researched extensively to work
out how to permanently disable it. If you boot FreeBSD more than ten
times with this card the decode lines for the unnecessary memory will be
burnt off (you may notice a slighly nasty smell - this is normal) and
your video card will be fixed. In the meantime, we only report 4MB so
that you won't be startled to see the amount change at the tenth boot.
> My motherboard is Asus A7V with AMD Duron 600MHz overclocked to 892MHz.
You may beat us to burning other parts of your system.
> Attached is my dmesg and kernel config file.
Could you include your VISA card number as well? 8)
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