Re: controlfb.c bug in VRAM bank2 check if bank1

khendricks@admin.ivey.uwo.ca said:

Hi,
Just to add fuel to the fire (although I am not sure if this is
related or not)

My B+W G3 rev2 with 16MB of vram has never ever detected the correct
amount.  In  fact, if I run Xconfigurator, it tells me I have less
then 1MB of vram and  therefore won't let me use any of the higher
resolutions that should work

The interesting thing is that if I change my bpp via the MacOS,
Xconfigurator  reports completely different amounts of vram available
and not in any logical  way that I can see.

If you use 'no video driver' Linux will see the amount of VRAM that was 
actually in use by MacOS when booting. You should probably look into a newer 
kernel with aty128fb

Any fixes along these lines would be greatly appreciated (this is with
Paul's  2.2.10 stable kernel available from his website).

Which is probably just old enough not to have the correct driver.

Just thought someone in the know should be told :-)

Kevin 

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